COLUMBUS, Ohio (WSYX) — Central Ohio’s Senegalese community is grieving the loss of three members of the Dieye family after a devastating overnight fire smoldered through a home on the city’s far east side overnight Tuesday.
The victims, identified by family friends as Mame Khary, Sophie, and Sergey Dieye, were all found on the second floor of the Freedom Trail home, unable to escape the flames before firefighters arrived around 2 a.m.
A mother and her young daughter survived after the woman threw the child from a second-story window before jumping herself, according to fire investigators. Both underwent surgery on Tuesday and are expected to survive…