A three-year-old boy has died in a house fire in Swansea while a 51-year-old man remains critically ill in hospital. At 1.20pm on Saturday, July 1, emergency services were called to Gonhill on the West Cross estate to a fire at a property in the cul-de-sac.
Neighbours have shared harrowing accounts of thinking a loud bang had come from the Wales Airshow which is taking place in Swansea this weekend. But the bang had actually come from the home where a Kurdish family of five live. The family are popular within the Muslim community in Swansea and regularly attend the local mosque, neighbours said.
Locals said a father, mother and three children live at the property and the mother and daughter, who is the oldest sibling, managed to flee the burning house first. They have both been treated for smoke inhalation. The middle child, the three-year-old boy's older brother, had been at the airshow with friends and wasn't in the house at the time of the fire.
