A truly heartbreaking story. Mum goes out to work, leaves her 3 kids locked in door padlocked. Gas leak, one of the kids (I presume the 12 year old) tries to light the stove. Whole place goes up, kids' bodies are found under the bed where I presume they burnt to death. So much wrong with this. Tragic that there is no childcare available and mum finds the need to lock the kids in on their own - I have heard this happen so many times in DR it feels like what so many working mothers do, as wrong as it feels to us expats. I read that neighbours tried to smash the door down and there are videos circulating where you can clearly hear the screams of the kids burning to death. By the time the firemen arrived it was too late. I just can't imagine how horrific the last few mins would have been for the kids. Horrible horrible story.
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Three children die after gas tank explosion
<p>LA ALTAGRACIA .- Three minors between 3, 4, and 12 years old burned to death due to a fire caused by a gas leak, which caused a cylinder to explode in an event recorded in the late afternoon of this Friday in La Gallera in this city. The explosion and subsequent fire were caused by a stove...
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