Investigation into fatal fire goes into second day

A FIRE investigation team has spent a second day at the scene of a fire in which a nine-year-old boy died.

Evan Mohammed died after a blaze swept through his home in Kilmarnock, Ayrshire, in the early hours of Tuesday.

Evan and his two younger sisters, Yasmin, four, and Nya, three, were rescued from the two-storey property at Altonhill Avenue, while his older sister, 15-year-old Talia, escaped by putting a blanket over her head.

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Attempts to resuscitate Evan were unsuccessful and he was pronounced dead at Crosshouse Hospital.

A joint investigation involving fire and police is now under way.

Last night, Gary Wallace, group commander at Strathclyde Fire and Rescue, said: “The fire investigation team is down there at the moment. Investigations are still going on. The joint investigation is because there has been a fatality.”

Early investigations indicated the fire had not been started deliberately.

Lyndsay McGill, 31, the dead boy’s aunt, said relatives believed the fire may have been triggered by an electrical fault from a fibre-optic Christmas tree in Evan’s bedroom.

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