Two children were killed Tuesday when a fire broke out in their home in Tal al-Sultan in the southern Gaza Strip town of Rafah, while their third sister was severely burned.
The health ministry said Aisha Mohammed Abdul Qadir Sabihi, 5, and her sister, Allen, died of the fire. The third child, Zainab, was seriously wounded by the fire.
According to Raed al-Dahshan, spokesman for the civil defense in his speech to "Jerusalem", the fire broke out on the second floor of an apartment building in the Tal al-Sultan neighborhood west of Rafah. Indicating that the metal roof of the tin and that the fire charges the children´s room completely.
He said the three bodies had been recovered completely charred from inside the house. Pointing out that the circumstances of the incident are being investigated to determine their circumstances.
