Police are investigating a suspected 4am arson attack on a car in Oldham. Three masked men are said to have torched the vehicle on Ripponden Road during the early hours of today (Saturday).
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An inquest has been opened into the deaths of two people after human remains were discovered at a mill in Oldham last month.
Married man Uoc Van Nguyen, 31, is so far the only person to be identified - with three other missing Vietnamese nationals feared dead by police - following a devastating blaze at the mill in May.
An inquest opening at Rochdale Coroners Court today (August 16) heard Mr Nguyen's remains were discovered on July 28 - five days after a first set of human remains were discovered by demolition workers at the Bismark House Mill.
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Specialist officers were able to obtain fingerprints from Mr Nguyen's body which matched with an immigration and asylum database - prompting his formal identification, the hearing was told.
It's understood Mr Nguyen had kept in touch with his wife, named by Senior Coroner Joanne Kearsley as Tran Thi Huy, and told her he was in a mill. He was born in the Nghe An region of Vietnam and had previously worked as a farmer.
Superintendent and Senior Identification Lead told the hearing: "Officers were able to get partial fingerprints and searched these against a national database, with the prints matching an immigration and asylum database."
Supt Hughes told the court an initial post-mortem had been carried out which has been inconclusive. The cause of Mr Nguyen is currently "unascertained."
So far, human remains relating to three individuals have been discovered inside the mill - including those relating to Mr Nguyen. The Vietnamese nationals named by police who remain missing are Cuong Van Chu, 39, Duong Van Nguyen, 29, and 21-year-old Nam Thanh Le.
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