SYDNEY, Sept 9 (NNN-AAP) – Three children have been hospitalised with life-threatening injuries, following a house fire, in the suburbs of Melbourne last night, police said, today.
The children were rescued from a house that had caught fire, in the outer north-west of Melbourne, in the state of Victoria, by emergency services last night.
Victoria Police said in a statement that, all three received immediate medical care at the site and were taken to hospital with life-threatening injuries.
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation reported that, the children are aged five years, three years and 21 months.
Firefighters were deployed to the house, in the suburb of Sydenham in Melbourne, at approximately 9:40 p.m. local time, after callers to emergency services reported hearing a loud bang.
Upon arrival, firefighters found flames and thick smoke billowing from the back of the house, and then entered the house, to extinguish the fire and rescue the three children.
No one else was injured in the fire and police are working to establish, if anyone else was present in the home at the time or just before the fire.
Police said, the area had been cordoned off and a crime scene established this morning, with detectives and an arson chemist from the arson and explosives squad set to investigate the cause of the fire.– NNN-AAP
