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Antony Thrower & Amina Sadik

Family-of-six sleeping in one room in flat where children believe mice are family pets

A family-of-six forced to sleep in a single room together in their "nightmare" home which is so ridden with damp and rodents the younger children believe the mice are their pets.

Mum Falhado Eders, 32, shared the two-bedroom flat with her husband and children Yussuf, 12, Leben, 7 years, Yasmin, 5 and baby Qaseeda, seven months.

The family, originally from war-torn Somalia, arrived in Hull nine years ago and say their council home was “not so bad at first” before everything went downhill.

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