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Child, 6, dies weeks after Waterford arson attack

Adam MandevilleBBC News NI
PA Media A semi-detached house which has been extensively smoke-damaged after a fire. Upstairs windows are blackened and broken. Flowers and toys have been left outside. PA Media
Five members of the English family have now died following the arson attack

A six-year-old boy who was critically injured in a suspected arson attack at his family home in County Waterford has died.

Elliot English died on Friday at Children's Health Ireland (CHI) hospital in Crumlin in Dublin.

His parents, Kim English and Philip English, and two of his siblings, 12-year-old Callum and nine-year-old Jayden, died in the house fire on Birch Avenue, on the outskirts of Waterford on 13 October.

Another child, who was also critically injured in the attack, remains in hospital.

Social media Kim English - a woman with long, black hair swept back from her face - looks to the camera in a selfie-style photo. Her husband Philip English is standing close to her smiling. He has short grey hair and is wearing a beige polo shirt and a silver necklace with a cross-shaped pendant. She is wearing a black and white patterned jacket and a silver necklace.Social media
Kim English and Philip English (pictured) and two of their children, 12-year-old Callum and nine-year-old Jayden, died in the house fire on Birch Avenue, on the outskirts of Waterford

A multiple murder investigation was launched by Gardaí (Irish police) following the fire.

In a brief statement on Friday, Irish police said: "The thoughts of all members of An Garda Síochána are with the extended English family at this sad time."

A number of people arrested by police in connection with the attack have all been released without charge.

PA Media Floral tributes are left outside the cordoned off home belonging to Philip and Kim English, and their two children who died after an arson attack in Waterford City. Behind the metal gates, which are covered in green mesh, is a semi-detached home with boarded up windows.PA Media
Flowers were left at the home following the arson attack last month

In the days after the attack, hundreds of people attended a prayer vigil.