Tragic House Fire In Accrington
 

Five members of the same family have died in a house fire in Lancashire.
The bodies of a woman and four children, aged between one and 14 years old, were found by firefighters at a house in Accrington in the early hours.
A man was rescued from the house in Tremellen Street at about 0200 GMT and was taken to hospital suffering from serious burns.
The house has been sealed off and a police investigation is under way into the cause of the blaze.
The name of the dead family has not been released until next of kin have been informed.

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Just heard it on teh radio as I drove in, my thoughts go to the relatives of the family, Sky News are quoting it as suspicious

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I just heard it on the radio. My immediate thought was that it could have been caused by Hallowe'en pumpkin candles. (We had candles here last night and a pumpkin in the window.) Tragic as an accident but absolutely shocking and unbelievably horrible if this was done deliberately. :(

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This is terrible news.

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very sad. very sad indeed

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Yes very sad news i worked with the mum only talking to one of her little girls at new era last night very sad day

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From the Accrington Stanley Website

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really sad news ...my heart goes out to all people concerned in this tragic incident..

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my condolences go to the relatives of these poor people who died in the early hours

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my condolences go to the relatives

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What a tragic waste of human life. My condolences to her husband and family.

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What a tragic end to there lives, I hope the husband pulls through all this.

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Tragic, very sad news.

Nothing else to say.

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There is a son who wasn't there last night because he's in hospital undergoing treatment for lukeamia :(

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Got the news in my inbox this morning & shocked to hear it was in Accy, seems like that the cops are treating it as suspicious probably racially motivated, hope they catch the gets. Tragic end & the poor husband left its seriously going to be hard for him if he pulls thro.

Condolances to the family!

Bloody scares me does fire be one of my no 1 worst thing to happen, made sure my candles & pumpkins were extinguished & out lol.