KOTA KINABALU: Three children were killed in a water village fire which also destroyed hundreds of wooden and semi-permanent squatter homes in Kg Lok Buta, near here.
Firemen were called to rescue and respond to the case at around 1.40am, and reached a scene of fiery red.
Flames were high and spreading fast, with firemen having to knock down four houses to control the spread of the fire.
They had to use the open sea as their main source of water as well as their firetruck water tanks to put out the blaze.
Kota Kinabalu Fire Station chief Mohd Hannis Moktar said when they managed to bring the fire under control at 6.26am, they were informed of three missing persons.
“We later found three charred remains - one boy and two girls,” he said in a statement.
They were identified as Mohd Asrul Abdullah, 6; Nana Abdullah, 4; and Nurfarahdilah Mohd Tajihah, 8.
Operations on site are still ongoing.
