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Nabeel Al Saeedi, an uncle of the kids, told Khaleej Times that his nephew Fahad and his niece Hor were in their room on the top floor of their two-storey house when the fire broke out.
"The kids were screaming for help," he said.
"My sister and her son rushed to the top floor but they could't open the door. The two kids were trapped inside as the heavy smoke filled their room."
Ali A, a family relative, said the children's parents were at work when the incident happened and they were with their grandmother. "The grandmother was old and could not help them."
Mohamad Abdullah, a neighbour, heard their grandmother screaming. "We saw dense smoke coming out of the house and alerted the civil defence who arrived at the scene within minutes."
When the firefighters arrived, they broke the window open, found the kids under their bed, and pulled them out.
Brigadier Ali Obaid Al Tunaiji, director of the Fujairah Civil Defence Department, said the central operations room of the Fujairah Police was alerted of the fire at 10.30am.
The firefighters cordoned off the house to prevent the flames from spreading to nearby houses, and the paramedics tried to resuscitate the kids.
The case was then referred to the police authorities.
In June 2013, a twin three-year-old brothers also died of suffocation when a fire erupted at the basement of their house at the Qadfa area in Fujairah.
Seven Emirati children aged between five and 13 years suffocated to death in the wee hours of January 22 last year after a fire broke out at their villa. According to the Fujairah Civil Defence, the AC in the children's room had a short circuit which caused the fire. The four boys and three girls died as they slept.Incidents that shocked UAE
- 12 Nov, 2018: Two people died of suffocation after a massive fire broke out at a villa in Sharjah
- 7 Sep, 2018: A 39-year-old Emirati man suffocated to death in Fujairah villa fire
- 22 Jan, 2018: Seven Emirati kids choke to death in Fujairah villa fire
- 7 May, 2017: Two Pakistani children died in a fire that erupted in their home in Sharjah
- 9 Apr, 2017: Five-year-old Emirati girl was killed in a fire that broke out in a villa in Dubai
- 14 Mar, 2017: Twin sisters died in a villa fire in Dubai
- 23 Oct, 2016: Three women from a prominent Emirati family in Sharjah died after their villa caught fireTips to keep your homes fire-safe
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