Photos of four young children, aged from 1 to 10, have been released after they tragically died in a house fire.
Ileen Osman, 1, Nadar Osman, 3, Isan Osman, 6, and Musrah Osman, 10, died after a massive blaze broke out at their home in Melbourne, Australia.
According to the reports, the children’s parents, Najm and Khadjah Osman, managed to escape the fire together with their 8-year-old son Ibrahim after their house was engulfed by flames on Sunday night.
Though the father desperately tried to save his other children by breaking the windows and banging on the doors after his wife and one of his sons were safely outside the house, he could not do anything to counter the inferno and rescue his children.
“He banged on our door … [and said[ to my husband, ‘my kids are dead, my kids are dead,’” the family’s neighbor, Geeta Deagan, recalled in an interview with the Herald Sun.
“[His wife] came to me and said, ‘they are not going to come back … my four kids died, I’m not a good mum, I’m not a good mum.’ I just gave her a hug… there was nothing she could do.”
After the fire was put out by several fire trucks and some 40 firefighters, another neighbor spoke out and claimed that the kids’ father did everything in his power to try and save his trapped kids.
“The father was trying to smash the door, smash the windows, everything. He was bleeding all up his arms from trying to get in and was begging me for a jacket so he could get to his kids. He tried every single thing,” the neighbor told The Age.
Following the tragic incident, neighbors and well-wishers began placing tributes to the four little angels outside the family’s home in Werribee.
“Situations like this, the community sort of do get together a little bit and try and help each other where they can and that’s a nice feeling but it’s still a devastating thing that’s happened,” Deagan’s husband Robert said on the Today show.
Our thoughts are with the Osman family during these challenging times.
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