A 47-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of murder following a house fire in Birmingham.<\/p>\n
It comes after another man, aged in his 30s, died following the blaze at a property in Highters Heath yesterday on Friday (September 19).<\/p>\n
Emergency services rushed to the scene of a property on Saxons Way shortly before 1.10am.<\/p>\n
READ MORE: <\/b>Heroes rushed to save neighbours from ‘deliberate’ Birmingham house fire where man died<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n Get breaking news on BirminghamLive WhatsApp<\/a>, click the link to join<\/b><\/p>\n The victim was found seriously injured and taken to hospital but tragically died a short time later, sparking a murder investigation.<\/p>\n West Midlands Police<\/a> said it arrested a suspect last night and they remain in custody while enquiries continue.<\/p>\n The force has appealed for anyone with information to get in touch, quoting log 174 of September 19.<\/p>\n A spokesperson for West Midlands Police<\/a> said: “We’ve arrested a man on suspicion of murder following a house fire in which a man died in Birmingham<\/a> on Friday.<\/p>\n “We were called alongside fire and ambulance colleagues to the property on Saxons Way, Highters Heath, shortly before 1.10am yesterday (19 September).<\/p>\n “A man, in his 30s, was found seriously injured and taken to hospital for treatment but tragically died a short time later.<\/p>\n “Last night, we arrested a man aged 47 on suspicion of murder.<\/p>\n “He remains in custody while enquiries continue.<\/p>\n “If you have information or footage which could help our investigation, please call us on 101 quoting log 174 of 19 September.<\/p>\n “Alternatively, contact Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 47-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of murder following a house fire in Birmingham. It comes…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":438424,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,393,4884,147948,110890,148473,16,15,7830],"class_list":{"0":"post-438423","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-birmingham","8":"tag-birmingham","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-highters-heath","13":"tag-murder-investigation","14":"tag-suspicion-of-murder","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom","17":"tag-west-midlands-police"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115236404388829967","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=438423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438423\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/438424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}