Child killed in house fire in south-west Melbourne home

Crews extinguished blaze before finding a child who died in Werribee home, Victoria police said

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A child has died and a man has been left seriously injured after an early morning house fire in Melbourne’s south-west.

Emergency services were called to Newbury Street in Werribee just after midnight on Monday.