Blaze deaths 'devastate' pupils in Neasden

The deaths of two teenage girls who were among five children killed in a house fire have left their school "devastated", its head has said.

Hanua Kua, 14, and her sister Basma, 13, died at their home in Neasden, north-west London, on Saturday.

Their mother Muna Elmufatish, 41, sister Amal, nine, and brothers Mustafa, five, and Yehya, two, also died at the house in Sonia Gardens.

Bev Bell, principal of Crest Girls' Academy, spoke of a "terrible tragedy".

Ben Ando reports.

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