Popular Greerton restaurant catches fire
'Much-loved' Tauranga Indian restaurant Castle 91 caught fire this afternoon.
Firefighters were called to the Greerton Village restaurant today at 3.09pm, Fire and Emergency NZ Northern shift manager Michael Anderson said.
He said the Fire and Emergency received multiple calls about a fire in a building used as a
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