A nine-year-old girl and her father have been killed in a house fire in West Yorkshire, while an eleven-year-old girl remains in a critical condition.

A nine-year-old girl and her father have been killed in a house fire in West Yorkshire, while an eleven-year-old girl remains in a critical condition.

There are not thought to be any suspicious circumstances surrounding the fire in Heckmondwike

Police called to reports of a fire in Heckmondwike, West Yorkshire, at 6.19am on Sunday

A mother is returning from a pilgrimage today to find her husband and youngest daughter, aged nine, have perished in a house fire.

The inferno engulfed the family's red-brick semi-detached home in West Yorkshire, at around 5am yesterday, while the mother was in Saudi Arabia for Hajj during Eid celebrations.

Mother Asifa was not at the family home in Heckmondwike, West Yorkshire, when the blaze took hold on Sunday morning as she was on a pilgrimage to the holy city of Mecca, in Saudi…

Sohaib Ahmed, 38, and his nine-year-old daughter Manahal sadly died during a horror blaze on Sunday at their family home.

Sohaib Ahmed and daughter Manahal die in blaze at family home in West Yorkshire