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listing of events:

WEDNESDAY |

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. NEWS nhoto Brad Ledwidge

FIREMEN FOUGHT a huge fire Saturday from outside a condo and retail complex:
"being built on Mountain Highway because entering the building was too dangerous.”

| NV suspects arrested Monday.

TWO NORTH Vancouver men arrested Monday face.
first-degree murder charges in the bludgeoning deaths of
three former Nerth Vancouver residents in Bellevue,
Washington.

By Anna Marie D'Angelo
News Reporter

The battered bodies of Tariq Rafay and his wife Sulttana,.both 56,
were found on July. 13, 1994,-in. the family’s Bellevue home: ‘Their. -
daughter, Basta. 21, was found badly beaten, She later died in hospity

The Rafays’ son, Auif- Ahmad Rafay, 19. and his friend. Glen,
Sebastian Burns..20, were charged with three counts of premeditated,
‘aggravated murder on Monday in the Superior: Court of Washington
for King County. * : abs ae

Vancouver RCMP arrested the pair at home at.2021 Philip Ave. iin
North Vancouver. The potice acted. upon a warrant of apprehension
under the Extradition Act = a :

See Money page 3

Weather

Thursday: Mainly sunny
High 22°C, low 13°C.

Three-alarm fire hits

Mtn. Highway project

“A SPECTACULAR fire destroyed the

top three Moors of.a four-storey devel-

-opment..in North.’ Vancouver on
’ Saturday. -~

‘By lan Noble

News Reporter

The blaze, which sent black smoke spewing
hundreds of feet into the air, was the North
Vancouver District Fire Services’ first three-
alarm blaze in 15 years, said Brian Stegavig.
chief fire prevention officer. a

AS throngs of oniookers watched on'a windy -.

afiernotn, about 43 firefighters battled the fire at
..223 Mountain Hwy. for more than one hour.

“Finally, at 3:25 p.m.-:the fire-was brought
under, control, Still, spot fires plagued the site

“until Monday afternoon.

Stegavig said the fire started during the appli-
cation of asphalt to the roof at a condominium.

- complex under construction near the busy Main

and Mountain Highway intersection.“
To soften the asphalt, roofers used a propane

“torch. The asphalt or. wood material may: have

become.too hat and ignited, he said.
“Burning asphalt likely ignited the hose hous-
ing’ propane and. because the propane was under

See Propane page 3.

.. NEWS photo Mike Wakefleld

VANCOUVER RCMP Sot. Peter Montague (right) faced the press
Tuesday as he reléaseci details of a cross-border murder inves-
tigation. Crown lawyer Joe Beltows (left) was present.