Father, three children die in Italy fire

Italian

news reports say a Moroccan father and three of his four children have died in an apartment fire in the northern lakeside city of Como. The ANSA news agency reported yesterday that social service agencies had been keeping an eye on the family, which lived in a subsidised flat.

A neighbour told Sky TG24 that the 49-year-old father wasn’t able to work because he needed to care for the children and the mother had been hospitalised for psychiatric problems. (AP)