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'This is a major event' says New Zealand PM as hostel fire kills at least six

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"This is a major event, we have not seen something on this scale in recent times" says New Zealand Prime Minister Chris Hipkins after at least six people were killed in a fire that tore through a four-storey hostel in the early hours of Tuesday in Wellington. SOUNDBITE

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