In a tragedy witnessed in southern Saudi Arabia, a father named Ali bin Mani Al-Husaini, who works as a school guard, woke up to a massive fire emanating from his nine children's room around two o'clock in the morning. This resulted in the deaths of four of his children in the Sarawat Abidah Governorate in the south of the Kingdom.
In details shared by the victims' cousin, Ali bin Muhammad Al-Husaini, to "Al Arabiya.net," he said: As soon as his cousin and family, consisting of four sons and five daughters, fell asleep in their tent-covered house in Wadi Al-Haya Center, he woke up to a catastrophe when flames erupted in the room of the four children. He rushed to help his family and succeeded in saving his daughters without injury.
He continued, "The father managed to find one of his children and carried him to a neighbor who then took him to the hospital. He returned to help his daughters and wife by getting them out through the exterior door, but he couldn’t go back inside to rescue the other three children, prompting him to notify the police and civil defense, which were far from the center."
However, fate outpaced any rescue attempt for the children who perished in the fire, while the fourth child was transported to Asir Hospital and remained in intensive care for four days before passing away, joining his three siblings who died on site.
Al-Husaini clarified that the victims were: Missifer, a second-grade student, Farraj, who was two years old, Omar, five years old, and Mani, a sixth-grade student, who was taken to the hospital and later died.
