year-old daughter were killed in an apartment fire in Al-Safa District in Jeddah, Wednesday night. The Civil Defense arrived at the site following a report from a passer-by of smoke coming from an apartment in a seven-story building. Three teams of firefighters evacuated the building of its residents as they battled to contain the fire. The man and his daughter died before the firefighters broke into the apartment. The two died of smoke inhalation. The fire gutted the entire apartment, said the spokesman of the Makkah Region Civil Defense Department. No other residents were harmed, he added. Investigators have not yet determined what started the fire.
