A man had to identify the bodies of his wife and young daughters on his birthday after they died in a house fire last week. Aboubacarr Drammeh, who turned 40 on Wednesday, spent his birthday in the hospital mortuary.
He paid tribute to wife of eight years, Fatoumatta Hydara, and their daughters Fatimah and Naeemah Drammeh, aged three and one, who all died from smoke inhalation following a blaze at their first-floor flat in Fairisle Close, Clifton, Nottingham, in the early hours of Sunday.
In a statement, Mr Drammeh described the past week as the "hardest" of his life and said he would never get over spending part of his birthday in the hospital mortuary. He said: "I had to go in there and see the bodies. That was just so hard."
