Roland Sakhawang, simply shy of his fourth birthday, was enjoying within the backyard of his household’s Ringwood dwelling within the metropolis’s east at 6.15pm when he grew to become trapped by a blaze that broke out contained in the shed.
Firefighters managed to extinguished the blaze, which fully engulfed the shed, nevertheless by the point Roland was discovered it was too late.
“We have been having a barbecue and whereas he went inside to retrieve one thing or go to the bathroom there was a fireplace occurring,” Roland’s father Siang Sakhawang mentioned.
Regardless of Sakhawang’s determined makes an attempt to rescue his son, he couldn’t be saved.
“He made a household very joyful, though he could not communicate but,” he mentioned.
“Simply from his behaviour, his actions, not simply the household however anybody who met him (he made) very joyful.”
The Burmese-Melbourne group has banded collectively and can begin two weeks of conventional mourning for Roland.
Police are at the moment investigating the reason for the hearth, nevertheless it isn’t being handled as suspicious.
