{"id":974254,"date":"2022-02-03T00:59:22","date_gmt":"2022-02-03T00:59:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/02\/03\/man-and-wife-four-others-killed-in-morning-house-fire\/"},"modified":"2022-02-03T00:59:22","modified_gmt":"2022-02-03T00:59:22","slug":"man-and-wife-four-others-killed-in-morning-house-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/02\/03\/man-and-wife-four-others-killed-in-morning-house-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"Man and wife, four others killed in morning house fire"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Members of the public offload bodies of the victim who died at Mombasa old town on Tuesday in Mombasa<\/strong>.[Omondi Onyango, Standard]\n<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A man and his wife, an 11-year-old boy and three others died in the incident at Mombasa’s Old Town estate yesterday morning.\n<\/p>\n

“At around 7am, there was a fire incident at Pigots Place in Old Town area where a house with wooden frameworks caught fire. Unfortunately, five people died in the incident while three others were taken to hospital after suffering burns and smoke inhalation,” said the county Kenya Red Cross Society Chairman Mahmud Noor. <\/p>\n

Police are yet to establish the cause of the fire, which had spread to two adjacent houses before it was extinguished.\n<\/p>\n

There was a brief stand-off between administrators at\u00a0Coast General Teaching and Referral Hospital and relatives of the victims after mortuary attendants insisted on retaining the bodies for postmortem.<\/p>\n