A man had to identify the bodies of his wife and young daughters on his birthday after they died in a house fire last week
. Aboubacarr Drammeh, who turned 40 on Wednesday, spent his birthday in the hospital mortuary.
Mr Drammeh was in the process of securing visas for his family to join him in Minnesota, in the US, where he works as a biomedical technologist. "That's not going to happen now and I can't understand why," he said. "As soon as she met you, you were part of the family. She was such a bubbly and nice person and had a really good sense of humour.
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