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Release of Name - fatal Workplace Accident - CentrePort
Wellington Police are now able to release the name of the father of three who was tragically killed in a workplace accident at CentrePort in Wellington earlier today.
He was 47 year old Mark SAMOA, a resident of Titahi Bay.
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