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19 March 2024

6-year-old dies saving family in house fire

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A six-year-old Saudi girl died after saving her mother and three younger brothers and sisters caught in a fire that engulfed their three-storey house in the Gulf kingdom.

The girl was playing out when she noticed smoke billowing out of the house where her mother, two sisters aged 3 and 5 years, and younger brother, were asleep.

“The girl rushed into the house and climbed up the stairs to the bedrooms…she shouted for her mother, who rushed and tried to get her children out of the house,” the Arabic language daily Sada said in a report from the western town of Makkah.

“But they could not make it as fire had spread through the house and the smoke was all over…civil defence men later arrived and rescued the mother and those three children but the six-year-old child was found dead after she was engulfed by fire and smoke.”