Family flees van blaze

Ice cream van on Roundthorn Road

A FAMILY with two young children fled their home when an ice cream van went up in flames in their back yard.

Waseen Hussain and his wife Samera Zreen were in their terrace house in Roundthorn Road, Glodwick, when the blaze started shortly before 4am yesterday.

The van was parked below the room at the rear of the house where their four-year-old daughter Romisa was sleeping and the heat cracked her window.

Their one-year-old son, Iqram, was also in the house while their eldest daughter was staying with her grandmother.

The vehicle belongs to Mrs Zreen’s brother-in-law and she said: “Before the fire there was a banging noise.

“Our neighbour had rung the police because they thought someone was breaking into the house.

“I woke up thinking someone was trying to break in because the window was cracking. Then it was all systems go — panicking, getting the children out.

“My daughter sleeps in the back room and I am just so glad we keep the doors open because her room was very hot and the smoke had got in as well.

Fire fighters believe that the blaze may have been caused by an electrical fault but Mrs Zreen (27) fears that it was deliberate.


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