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PA MediaGardaí (Irish police) have arrested three more people in connection with a suspected arson attack which killed four family members in Waterford.
A man in his 50s and two women in their 30s were arrested by gardaí on Tuesday. A man aged in his 20s and a woman in her 30s were previously charged in connection with the fatal attack.
Kim English, Philip English and two of their children – nine-year-old Jayden and 12-year-old Callum – died after their home in Birch Avenue, on the outskirts of Waterford was set on fire on Tuesday.
Two other children, who were also in the house at the time, remain in a critical condition in hospital in Crumlin.
Those arrested on Tuesday are currently being held in a station in the east of the Republic of Ireland.
