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| Hamstead house fire: Children named as brother and sister | Hamstead house fire: Children named as brother and sister |
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| Two children who died after a "suspicious" house fire were brother and sister, police have said. | Two children who died after a "suspicious" house fire were brother and sister, police have said. |
| The pair - discovered at a property in Hamstead near Birmingham on Friday - have been named as Saros Endris, eight, and his sister Leanor Endris, six. | The pair - discovered at a property in Hamstead near Birmingham on Friday - have been named as Saros Endris, eight, and his sister Leanor Endris, six. |
| A post-mortem examination has been carried out but further tests are needed to establish the cause of death. | A post-mortem examination has been carried out but further tests are needed to establish the cause of death. |
| A man believed by police to be the siblings' father was found with serious injuries in a car about 40 miles away. | A man believed by police to be the siblings' father was found with serious injuries in a car about 40 miles away. |
| He remains in a critical condition after his rescue from the fire-damaged vehicle in Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire, on Friday. | He remains in a critical condition after his rescue from the fire-damaged vehicle in Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire, on Friday. |
| Police said they were not looking for anyone else in connection with the deaths of the children. | |
| Firefighters were called to the property at 03:40 BST on Friday and tackled what they described as a small fire in the hallway. | |
| Despite attempts by crews to resuscitate the children - said by residents to have been carried out of the Holland Road home by a neighbour and laid on the lawn - they could not not be saved. | |
| The children's mother, named by police as Penil Teklehaimamot, 36, was uninjured. | |
| She is being treated as a witness. | |
| Det Insp Justin Spanner of West Midlands Police said the events were "an absolutely tragic set of circumstances" and investigations into "what happened and why" were at an early stage. |