Five siblings, aged between one and ten, were killed when
they were trapped in their bedroom in a shophouse during a fire
at Park Garden this morning. The children had been sleeping in
their bedroom ___1___ the
first floor of their double-storey shophouse when the fire broke
out in the early ___2___ of
the morning. Their other brothers and sisters, their mother
and two workers managed to escape from the burning building. The
___3___ mother, Mrs Katie,
44, had been with a worker in the kitchen on the ground floor
when, suddenly, the worker noticed smoke was ___4___
into the room. She told Mrs Katie about it. Mars Katie, ___5___
that the smoke was coming from upstairs, was greatly ___6___
and immediately rushed up the stairs to ___7___
her children. However, she was forced back by the flames. |