UPDATE: Police are investigating a link between a house fire at Raymond Terrace overnight, which has claimed the life of one person, and a crash between a Nissan X-Trail and truck at Bulahdelah about an hour later.
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Acting Superintendent Alan Jansen, Port Stephens-Hunter Police District Commander, said that police were investigating whether the matter was domestic violence related as ‘one line of inquiry’.
The body inside the house is yet to be identified; however, the 76-year-woman who lives in the home has not been accounted for.
Acting Supt Jansen would not be drawn on the relationship between the deceased and the driver of the X-Trail, a 69-year-old man.
The man is under police guard at John Hunter Hospital with non-life -threatening injuries.
Rosemount Drive reamins cordoned off as a c rime scene.
EARLIER: The body is yet to be formally identified; however, the 76-year-woman who lives in the home has not been accounted for.
EARLIER: Police are investigating after a body was found following a house fire in Raymond Terrace overnight.
Emergency services were called to a home on Rosemount Drive about 12.30am on Saturday, July 7 after reports of an explosion and a fire.
Once firefighters extinguished the blaze, they located a body inside the home. The body is yet to be formally identified.
A crime scene is being maintained and will be forensically examined.
About an hour later at 1.20am, police responded to reports a Nissan X-Trail collided with a truck on the Pacific Highway, about 5km north of Bulahdelah.
The driver of the Nissan, a man aged in his 60s, was taken to John Hunter Hospital under police guard suffering serious injuries.
The driver of the truck was not injured.
Officers from Port Stephens-Hunter and Manning-Great Lakes Police District are investigating whether the incidents are linked.
The cause of the fire is yet to be determined; however, it is being treated as suspicious.
Detectives are seeking anyone with information that may assist to come forward.
Police are urging anyone with information in relation to this incident to call Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000 or use the Crime Stoppers online reporting page: https://nsw.crimestoppers.com.au/ Information you provide will be treated in the strictest of confidence. We remind people they should not report crime information via our social media pages.
More to come