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DETROIT, Jan. 3 (UPI) -- A third body has been found in the rubble of a Detroit hotel fire, while as many as five others are unaccounted for, officials say.
Detroit Fire Department Capt. Steve Varnas said Saturday that the badly burned body of a woman was pulled from the wreckage of the Huntington Hotel, joining two other confirmed victims of the New Year's Eve blaze, The Detroit News reported.
Varnas couldn't confirm to the newspaper if the body was that of Ann Louise Roeder, 67, who was last seen in her third-floor room at the hotel, directly above the room where the fire began when a drunken man trying to light a cigarette set his bed on fire.
The newspaper said police were trying to determine if the five missing hotel guests were staying with relatives, in shelter or in other hotels. Until those determinations can be made, digging at the fire site has been suspended.
The 15 collapsed units of the hotel would be fully excavated if the missing can't be accounted for, Varnas told the News.
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