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How three children were burnt to death in Mombasa house

Likoni residents carry the bodies of the children after the fire on Friday April 2, 2019. The kids were at a day care. [Weldom Kipkemoi, Standard]

Families of the three children who were burnt to death in Friday’s fire in Likoni had been paying Sh1,000 monthly for each child to a woman who operated a daycare.

A blaze tore through the 13-room rental house - one of the rooms had been turned into the baby care facility- killing Isaack Oware, 2, Prisca Ayuma, 5, and Angel Wangare, 3, in Mwembe Ngoma.

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