The wife of a convenience store owner was worried about her husband's unusual disappearance from their home in south-west Sydney at 4am - the morning his shop was destroyed in a fatal explosion. A close friend revealed Naima Adeel was concerned when she discovered her husband Adeel Khan wasn't at their Greenacre home and tried to reach him on his phone a number of times, the Sydney Morning Herald reports. This comes as Mr Khan, 44, denied responsibility for the tragedy, which killed three people last week. The shop owner, who is still in hospital, has become a focus of police inquiries after he was rescued from the fire.
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Naima Adeel, wife of Rozelle convenience store owner, tried to call her husband when she discovered he was absent from home
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Shop owner Adeel Khan denies responsibility for the triple tragedy
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He has been moved from intensive care to a regular hospital ward
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Police continue to investigate possibility of a triple murder charge against those responsible
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Police found traces of accelerant at the convenience store that exploded into flames last Thursday
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Bianka O'Brien and one-year-old son Jude were killed in the blaze
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The body of Chris Noble, 27, was also found at the Rozelle site
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