Boys killed in blaze were brothers

The two four-year-old boys who died in a house fire in Northern Ireland today were brothers, police said.

The two four-year-old boys who died in a house fire in Northern Ireland today were brothers, police said.

Robert and Gareth Barkley were carried by firefighters from a burning room in their home on Sydney Street West, off Belfast’s Shankill Road, but were pronounced dead later in hospital.

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