Two girls dead, baby in hospital after Geelong East house fire
Two young girls have died and a baby is in hospital after a house fire in East Geelong on Thursday morning.
The girls, aged one and two, were taken to hospital but were pronounced dead shortly after.
A six-month-old baby has been treated for smoke inhalation at hospital and is in a non-life-threatening condition.
One neighbour has described the children's family as the "nicest people" and says the tragedy will shock the street.
It is understood the blaze broke out inside a room of the Loch Street home shortly before 8am.
The arson squad is at the scene, but the cause of the fire is not yet known.
Loch Street is closed between St Albans Road and Kilgour Street.
A neighbour who lives close by said the tragedy would shock the street.
“The family are lovely people, the nicest people, really friendly and their daughters were stunningly beautiful,” the neighbour who did not want to be named said.
She said she believed the family, of Middle Eastern descent, were renting the property.
The father of the children runs a local fast food shop, she said.
The neighbour was awake just before 7am, but said she heard no sirens or loud noises around 8am when the fire is believed to have started a few houses down from where she lives on Loch Street.
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