{"id":2583,"date":"2007-05-23T10:58:59","date_gmt":"2007-05-23T10:58:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tat.reddaisytrading.co.uk\/index.php\/2007\/05\/23\/mother-and-children-fight-for-life-after-blaze\/"},"modified":"2016-01-06T16:49:30","modified_gmt":"2016-01-06T16:49:30","slug":"mother-and-children-fight-for-life-after-blaze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2007\/05\/23\/mother-and-children-fight-for-life-after-blaze\/","title":{"rendered":"Mother and children fight for life after blaze"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<div><strong>A MOTHER and her two young sons are fighting for their lives after an arson attack on their home in Leicester.<\/strong><\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>The woman, named locally as Shabina Khan, was rescued alongside her two sons by firefighters following the blaze at their terrace house in the Belgrave area of the city. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Detectives have now begun an attempted murder inquiry after confirming the blaze was started deliberately. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Forensic teams and specialist officers from the Fire Service have been conducting test at the scene since the blaze.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>City firefighters rushed to the house in Sutton Avenue just after 2am on Monday after frantic calls from neighbours. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>The nine-year-old boy was seriously injured after falling face-first from a first floor bedroom in a desperate attempt to escape from the flames. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>His mother and six-year-old brother were rescued from the house by firefighters. The duo were unconscious and rushed to Leicester Royal Infirmary were they remain in a critical condition. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Detectives investigating the blaze confirmed it was a \u201cdeliberate case of arson\u201d and were also looking into the possibility that a wheelie bin was set alight and wedged up against the front door.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Detective Superintendent Chris Thomas, who is leading the investigation, said: &#8220;It is now clear that we are not dealing with a horrible accident but a deliberate case of arson which has led to a mother and her two sons being very poorly in hospital.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>&#8220;We&#8217;re keen to speak to anyone who may have been in the Gipsy Lane or Sutton Avenue area of Belgrave yesterday morning between 1am and 2pm.\u201d<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Anyone with any information is asked to call Det Insp Hurst on 0116 222 2222, keying in 1502 to leave a message, or call the anonymous Crimestoppers hotline on 0800 555111.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A MOTHER and her two young sons are fighting for their lives after an arson attack on their home in Leicester. &#13; The woman, named locally as Shabina Khan, was rescued alongside her two sons by firefighters following the blaze at their terrace house in the Belgrave area of the city. &#13; Detectives have now [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2583\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}