Leicester Fire Victims 'Not Involved In Murder' A mother and her three children killed in a house fire were not involved in the murder of a man hours earlier, police have said. Sky News understands Leicestershire Police are investigating whether the victims of the blaze were mistakenly targeted in a revenge attack. Shehnila Taufiq, who was in her 40s, died in the fire at her terraced home in Wood Hill, in the Spinney Hills area of Leicester, in the early hours of Friday. Her children, named by a local mosque as 19-year-old daughter Zainab and sons Jamal, 17, and Bilal, 15, also died in their bedrooms. About half a mile away on Thursday afternoon, a man in his 20s, named locally as Antoin Akpom, was found injured by police officers in Kent Street. Police were called to the blaze by the fire service at 12.35am on Friday Three people, a man and two women, all aged 19, have been arrested in connection with the murder. Mrs Taufiq's neurosurgeon husband, Dr Muhammad Taufiq al Sattar, is believed to have returned to Leicester from Ireland, where he works. He has been working at Beaumont Hospital in Dublin and with private hospitals in the city, the Blackrock and Hermitage clinics. It is understood Mr Sattar's wife was a qualified doctor but was not working. The family, originally from Pakistan, had a home in Ireland for at least 15 years before the children moved to the UK with their mother about five years ago for Islamic education. Police on Saturday appealed to residents with information to come forward to help them find the perpetrators of the attacks which they said had left two families "devastated by events of the past 48 hours." Police have said the house fire and a nearby murder may be linked Roger Bannister, Assistant Chief Constable of Leicestershire Police, said: "While we are investigating links between the two crimes there is absolutely no evidence to suggest those who died in the fire, or indeed anyone else who lives in that property, was involved in the assault in Kent Street. Because of the close proximity - in terms of time and location - of the two incidents, it is right that we look at whether there are links between the two crimes. However, at this stage in our investigations we have found nothing to suggest the residents of the house devastated by the fire had anything to do with the Kent Street incident. We have three people in custody in relation to the murder of the young man in Kent Street and we continue with the complex forensic investigations at Wood Hill. However, we know there are local people who know more about both incidents and the people responsible and we would appeal to their consciences. Two families have been devastated by events of the past 48 hours. Please help us to find those responsible. Anyone with information about either attack can speak to their local beat team, call police on 101 or Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111.