‘Two dead, four suffer smoke inhalation in Sahab fire’

AMMAN — Two women, aged 45 and 18 years, died and four members of their family suffered smoke inhalation in a fire that erupted on Thursday in a two-storey building in the capital’s Sahab District, according to a Civil Defence Department (CDD) statement. The women died of third-degree burns.

Firefighters contained the blaze and the injured were taken to Tutanji Hospital, where they were listed in fair condition.

An investigation committee was formed to identify the cause of the fire, according to the statement.