Auckland apartment fire victim named

Firefighters at the scene on Queens Rd (Photo: Tim Raethel)

By 3 News online staff

The man who died in an Auckland apartment fire yesterday has been named.

He was 57-year-old Peter Vincent David Harrison. A postmortem revealed he died as a result of the fire.

Mr Harrison's body was found in a ground-floor bedroom of a three-level apartment block on Queens Rd in Panmure yesterday afternoon. CPR was performed without success.

The cause of the fire is still being investigated.

3 News

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