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.

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 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.

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