The death of an elderly man and two from the grandmother of suffocation by fire in an apartment in the Emirate of Ajman

An elderly man and two of his grandchildren died of asphyxiation from smoke caused by a fire in their apartment in Al Rashidiya, Ajman. On the details of the incident, Colonel Khaled Mohammed Al-Nuaimi, Deputy Director General of Police Operations, Ajman Police said that a report reached the operations room stating that there was a fire in an apartment in a building in the Emirate of Ajman. Immediately, a police and civil defense force moved from the area of jurisdiction to the scene of the accident, and upon entering the apartment it was found that one of the rooms had been burned and smoke spreading, causing the death of the 69-year-old grandfather and his two grandsons, a four-year-old and his two-year-old sister of Egyptian nationality. All of them died of asphyxia in smoke. The community police also gave full support to the families of the dead and worked to provide a suitable place to house them and help them in their affliction. The Deputy Director General of Police Operations expressed his deep regret at the unfortunate and painful incident, and offered his deepest condolences and sincere sympathy to their family. He called on the public to adhere to the requirements of prevention and safety and to ensure the maintenance of manual and mobile fire extinguishing equipment, pointing out that investigations are still ongoing to know the causes and causes of the fire.