Victims of Fire in Schaerbeek Are Mother and Daughter; Two Seriously Injured Girls Aged 9 and 11 Are Also From the Family: “She Tried to Save Her Children”

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A typical Sunday morning on the Haachtsesteenweg in Schaerbeek (Brussels): cars drive back and forth under a grey cloud cover. Local residents chat. Nothing suggests that a tragedy unfolded here 6 hours earlier. No blackened facades, not even the smell of burning. And yet, two people have died and 8 others are still in the hospital. “Everyone was screaming and running into the street,” neighbors say. The victims are a mother and her daughter. “T…