A father who killed himself and six other family members when he set fire to their home was treated for depression two months before the fatal blaze, a coroner's court heard today.

A father who killed himself and six other family members when he set fire to their home was treated for depression two months before the fatal blaze, a coroner’s court heard today.

Relatives wept today as they listened to a harrowing 999 call made by a terrified schoolgirl moments before she died with six other family members in a house fire started by her father.

The inquest into the death of the McElhill family during a house fire in Omagh almost two years ago is due to get underway in the North today.

Officials in the North say no prosecutions will be brought in connection with the house fire that killed an entire family in Co Tyrone 18 months ago.

Welfare services involved with the family of registered sex offender Arthur McElhill, who killed himself and his family when he set fire to their Omagh home, were guilty of a series of failings, an investigation into the deaths found today.

The Northern Executive has announced plans for an independent inquiry into the circumstances surrounding the deaths of an entire family in a house fire in Omagh last year.

A girl killed in the Omagh fire tragedy which claimed the lives of her mother, two sisters and two brothers made a 999 call to the emergency services just minutes before the house went up in flames, police revealed today.

Omagh was united in grief today as a funeral service was held for the family of seven killed in a horrific house fire last month.

A funeral for a family-of-seven killed in a house fire in the North is to be held later today.

The father suspected of starting the house fire which killed him, his partner and their five children is to be buried in a separate grave, it was disclosed today.

Relatives of Arthur McElhill, who died along with his partner and their five children in last week's house fire in Omagh, have hit out at media coverage of the tragedy.

The family of Arthur McElhill have described media reports on the death of his family in a fire in Omagh as "inaccurate and hurtful".

The seven victims of the Omagh fire tragedy all died from smoke inhalation, police revealed today.

Post mortem results on the bodies of the seven members of the McElhill family, who died in a house fire in Omagh this week, could be known later today.

POSTMORTEMS were being carried out yesterday on the bodies of the family of seven who died in the Omagh house fire tragedy.

THE fire that killed a family of seven in a quiet cul-de-sac in Omagh, Co Tyrone, began as a tragedy but has brought fresh horrors with it as each day unfolds.

Post mortem examinations are due to be carried out today on the bodies of the seven people who died in Tuesday morning's house fire in Omagh.

NEW details about Arthur McElhill, 39, a convicted sex offender, emerged last night.

Police in the North are to try to piece together the series of events that led to the deaths of a couple and their five children in a house fire on Monday morning.

NEIGHBOURS of Arthur McElhill said they were shocked last night by the news that the police were treating him as the prime suspect behind the fire in which he died along with his wife and five children.

The North's worst house fire tragedy which killed a family of seven became a murder investigation tonight - with the father the prime suspect.

The screams of a family burned to death in a house fire in the North echoed across the neighbourhood, a man who tried to rescue them said today.

Police and firefighters in the North are resuming the search for two bodies at the scene of the house where a family of seven are believed to have perished.

A blaze which is feared to have killed seven members of a family in the North's worst house fire tragedy may have been started deliberately, it emerged tonight.