month-old baby girl and her 9-year-old sister suffocated to death from toxic fumes after a fire tore through their bedroom in Taif Monday. No family members were present at the apartment when the fire started. “They were left alone inside the apartment,” said Col. Khaled Al-Qahtani, spokesman of the Civil Defense Department in Taif. The fire was reported to the police by an eyewitness who saw the blaze coming out of the window. When firefighter forced their way through the locked door, they found the two sisters dead. The fire was contained before spreading to other apartments, Col. Al-Qahtani said. It was not immediately clear what caused the fire.
