Victorian woman's death being treated as suspicious after house fire

Homicide squad detectives are on their way to Dandenong in Victoria after the discovery of a woman's body following a house fire.

Emergency services were called to a fire at a house on Sheales Street at around 7.20pm, and found the body of a woman in her 50s.

Police said the circumstances of the woman's death are yet to be established and her death is being treated as suspicious.

Detectives are en route to the scene at Dandenong, which is about 35km southeast of Melbourne's CBD.