Blaze victim, six, tried to escape flames in wardrobe

THE boy who died when his family’s mobile home was engulfed in flames on a Limerick halting site on Sunday has been named as Thomas Connors Jnr, aged six.

Blaze victim, six, tried to escape flames in wardrobe

He hid in a wardrobe in the mobile home, trying to hide from the blaze.

His father, Thomas, made repeated attempts to find his son, but was beaten back by flames.

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