00:01Three children were killed in a water village fire which also destroyed wooden and semi-permanent squatter homes in Kampung
00:08Lokbuta in Sabah early Sunday morning.
00:16The Sabah Fire and Rescue Department said they responded to the incident at around 1.40am and firefighters arrived at
00:24the scene in 14 minutes.
00:26They said the flames were spreading fast and they had to knock down four houses to control the spread of
00:31the fire.
00:31They said they had to use the open sea as their main source of water as well as their fire
00:36truck water tanks to put out the blaze.
00:39The fire was brought under control at 6.26am where firefighters found three charred bodies of the children.
00:46They are identified as Muhammad Asrul Abdullah, Nana Abdullah and Nurfaradila Muhammad Tajiha, aged between 4 and 8.
00:54Authorities estimated some 200 houses in the area were involved in the fire.
