An Indian mother and her two children died Tuesday afternoon in a fire that gutted their apartment building in Rakah District near the Indian International School in Dammam (IISD). Aneesa Faisal, 28, and her children, 8-year-old Mohammed Fattah, and 18-month-old Misbah, died of suffocation when smoke from an adjoining flat that was burning entered their flat through the holes of their air-conditioners. The accident took place in the afternoon. A Saudi neighbor who lives in the same building called the police and fire fighters from Directorate of Civil Defense after hearing knocking on the door of the apartment where the deceased family lived. As soon as the fire started, all people in the building evacuated except the family of Faisal. Investigators said that it appeared that as the smoke filled in the apartment, Aneesa was unable to find the key to the main door of the flat since it was dark because electricity was cut off. The husband of Aneesa, K.E. Faisal, who works for a car rental company, was on duty when the incident happened. Friends of Aneesa said that she talked over the phone to her husband several times that day and were planning to go out for their usual evening walk and some shopping. The Indian community in Dammam is shocked over the tragic death of Aneesa and her children. The Faisal family, who moved from Riyadh to Eastern Province, has been residing in Dammam for the last five years. Aneesa is from the south Indian state of Kerala and has a brother in UAE and a sister in India. __
