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 Arabia.

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.

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