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| Leicester fire deaths: Family 'not involved' in street attack | Leicester fire deaths: Family 'not involved' in street attack |
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| Detectives investigating a house fire in Leicester which killed four members of a family say there is no evidence they were involved in a death nearby. | Detectives investigating a house fire in Leicester which killed four members of a family say there is no evidence they were involved in a death nearby. |
| A blaze in Wood Hill on Friday killed four people, named locally as Shehnila Taufiq, her daughter Zainab Taufiq, and sons Jamal and Bilal Taufiq. | A blaze in Wood Hill on Friday killed four people, named locally as Shehnila Taufiq, her daughter Zainab Taufiq, and sons Jamal and Bilal Taufiq. |
| Police said there was no evidence anyone in the house was involved in the death of a man in a street attack. | Police said there was no evidence anyone in the house was involved in the death of a man in a street attack. |
| But they could not rule out a link between the two events. | But they could not rule out a link between the two events. |
| 'Popping' sounds | |
| Assistant Chief Constable for Leicestershire Police Roger Bannister said: "While we are investigating links between the two crimes there is absolutely no evidence to suggest those who died in the fire, or indeed anyone else who lives in that property, was involved in the assault in Kent Street. | Assistant Chief Constable for Leicestershire Police Roger Bannister said: "While we are investigating links between the two crimes there is absolutely no evidence to suggest those who died in the fire, or indeed anyone else who lives in that property, was involved in the assault in Kent Street. |
| "Because of the close proximity - in terms of time and location - of the two incidents, it is right that we look at whether there are links between the two crimes. | "Because of the close proximity - in terms of time and location - of the two incidents, it is right that we look at whether there are links between the two crimes. |
| "However, at this stage in our investigations we have found nothing to suggest the residents of the house devastated by the fire had anything to do with the Kent Street incident." | "However, at this stage in our investigations we have found nothing to suggest the residents of the house devastated by the fire had anything to do with the Kent Street incident." |
| The blaze started shortly after midnight on Friday morning with neighbours describing hearing "popping" sounds and the smell of burning plastic. | |
| Despite residents attempts to raise the alarm with the family all four were found by firefighters dead in upstairs bedrooms. | |
| The children's father, Dr Muhammad Taufiq Al Sattar, worked as a neurosurgeon at Beaumont Hospital in Dublin, and was due to return home on Friday. | |
| Detectives are continuing to link the fire, now a murder investigation, with the death of a man in his 20s, understood to be Antoin Akpom, a coach with the youth football team Nirvana FC. | |
| He died in hospital after he was attacked in Kent Street, in the Highfields area of Leicester, at about 17:00 BST on Thursday, about a mile from the house. | |
| Three people were arrested on Friday in connection with his death; a 19-year-old man in London and two women, both aged 19. |