Three children dead and tot left fighting for her life after 'suspected arson attack' on family home
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Three children have died in a 'suspicious' fire and a three-year-old girl is fighting for her life in hospital after a blaze ripped through a home.
A 14-year-old girl was declared dead at the scene. An 8-year-old boy and a 7-year-old girl subsequently died in hospital.
The fire is being treated as suspicious, police confirmed.
A three-year-old girl is in a critical condition in hospital. The 35-year-old mother of all the children is in a serious condition in hospital.
The Manchester Evening News reported that police had been called to the house to a reported incident there at around 2am, around three hours before the fire service were alerted to the blaze.
It is understood that in the earlier incident, the police and the fire service were responding to reports of a wheelie bin at the home being set on fire.
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The Manchester Evening News understands that one line of investigation is a possibility that a flammable liquid was poured through the home’s letterbox.
Two teenagers also managed to escape the blaze. Their condition is not known.
Six people in total were taken to hospital after a blaze ripped through a terrace in Salford.
Four fire engines were called to Jackson Street in Worsley and the road was closed off between St Mary's Road and A575 Worsley Road North.
It is unclear how badly injured the people were following the fire.
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A Manchester Fire spokesman said: "We were called at 4.58am to a fire at a mid-terrace house on Jackson Street. Four crews attended. They used six breathing apparatus, three hose reels and a ventilation fan to put out the fire.
"Fire crews rescued five people."
A 200 metre cordon remains around the building, the fire spokesman said.
One neighbour told the Manchester Evening News that she heard screaming and banging last night, she believed at first it was a domestic. She described the street as being ‘quite loud’.
She believes young children live at the address. She says she often sees a baby going into the house.
She said the news this morning has come as a complete shock, she never once thought it was a fire.
The tragedy before Christmas is the worst loss of life in a house fire in Greater Manchester since three children and their mother died in a blaze caused by a portable heater at a terrace house in Daubhill, Bolton, in July this year.