A family is now in mourning after three children died this morning in a fire which destroyed a house in Negril, Westmoreland.

The children, two girls and one boy, were aged 14, 11 and 8.

Reports are that around 6:35, the Negril Fire Department responded to a call that a two bedroom house was ablaze.

Head of the Westmoreland Fire Division, Senior Deputy Superintendent Morine Thompson, says the bodies of the children were discovered inside a bathtub.

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DSP Thompson says the children’s guardians had left the house shortly before the blaze began.

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Morine Thompson, Head of the Westmoreland Fire Division speaking with Nationwide News.