A TERRIFIED schoolgirl made a frantic 999 call moments before she died along with six other family members in a house fire started by her father, an inquest has heard.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The authorities in the North have designated the site of yesterday's fatal house fire in Omagh as a suspected crime scene.

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.

Police in the North have not ruled out criminal involvement in a house fire which is feared to have claimed the lives of a family of seven today.

A couple and their five children were feared dead today in one of the North’s worst ever fire tragedies.