A man in his 30s and a five-year-old girl have died in a house fire in Tralee, Co Kerry, overnight.
The mother of the child jumped to safety through a back window of the semi-detached house at Killeen Heights. However, she sustained injuries, including a broken leg, and is being treated in Kerry General Hospital.
The alarm was raised by neighbours shortly after 2.30am. Two units of the fire service, from Tralee and Castleisland, attended the scene.
Using breathing apparatus, firefighters recovered the bodies of the man and the girl, believed to be his daughter, from upstairs. The bodies were taken to Kerry General Hospital.
A postmortem is to be carried out by assistant State pathologist Margot Bolster.
The house in the estate at Oakpark, Tralee, was sealed off by gardaí today. The dead man was named locally as Anthony O’Brien ( 31).
PA