A murder investigation by Nottinghamshire Police is under way after two children aged three and one years old have died in a flat fire. Emergency services were called to Fairisle Close, Clifton, at 3:17am on Sunday, November 20, after reports of a flat fire which is believed to have been started deliberately. A woman has also been left in a serious condition after the blaze.
The fire was in a first floor flat of a two-storey residential property. Whilst crews tackled the blaze, which was extinguished at around 4am, neighbouring properties were temporarily evacuated.
A woman and two young children were treated at the scene by East Midlands Ambulance Service for smoke inhalation, and then taken to Queen’s Medical Centre in Nottingham. Sadly the two children, aged three and one, were pronounced dead at the hospital, and the woman remains in a critical condition.
