Probe into horror fire

A MURDER investigation has been launched after two young children died and a woman was left critically injured in a fire at a flat in Nottingham.

The blaze broke out in the first-floor flat of a two-storey building in Fairlisle Close, Clifton, at around 3.17am yesterday. A woman and two children, aged three and one, were taken to hospital in Nottingham. The two children were pronounced dead at the hospital.