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Fiji police question NZer over five mysterious deaths

17:51 pm on 30 August 2019

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Fiji police have been questioning a New Zealand resident in connection to the mysterious deaths of five family members in the Pacific island nation.

A couple, their daughter and two granddaughters were found dead on Monday morning in steep terrain in the remote Nausori Highlands, with police saying they ingested a "substance".

The sole survivor of the incident was a one-year-old found crawling and crying at the scene.

A candlelit vigil is being held tonight in Nadi, as Alex Perrottet reports.