Three primary school pupils tragically lost their lives on Thursday after a fire razed down their home in Ikolomani, Kakamega County.

Among the victims were two seventh-grade pupils and one third-grade learner, all of whom were asleep when the fire, believed to have been ignited by a candle, erupted.

Their mother, present in the house at the time, sustained serious burns and is recuperating at Kakamega Referral Hospital’s ICU wing.

Neighbours who responded to the family’s distress calls told Citizen Digital that they managed to remove rescue the family after dousing the flames but efforts to resuscitate the children proved futile.

The bodies of the deceased have since been moved to Kakamega Mortuary for storage pending post-mortem.