Family flee as home is torched

A LIMERICK family had a narrow escape early on Sunday when their home was torched in the middle of the night.

A couple and their young children managed to flee their home at O’Callaghan Avenue, Kileely, at about 2am after it was engulfed in flames.

The family were awoken by a smoke alarm after petrol which had been poured through a letter box was set alight. As fire spread through the ground floor the couple managed to grab their children and get out of the house.