Tributes to family killed in suspected arson attack

Friends of a mother and her four children killed in a suspected arson attack have paid tribute to a “beautiful, well-behaved family”.

The family, named by friends as Sabah Usmani and her sons Sohaib, 13, and Rayan, six, as well as 11-year-old daughter Hira, died in their end-of-terrace house in Barn Mead, Harlow, Essex, at about 1am.

A third son, Muneeb, nine, and daughter Maheen, three, were rescued and taken to hospital in critical condition, but Muneeb later died at the Princess Alexandra Hospital.