A father and his two young children died in a fire at their home in a family compound on a British base in Cyprus, police sources said today.
They said the dead children were a girl aged two and a boy aged five.
The British military could not confirm the identity of the victims, saying they had to make a formal identification and brief the next of kin.
Nobody else was hurt in the fire.
The cause of the blaze in the RAF Akrotiri compound, which sits on the southern tip of Cyprus, was not immediately known.
Britain has two bases on Cyprus, which was a British colony until 1960.
