Three young children and a teenager died between Wednesday and Thursday, plunging three families across the island into deep sorrow.

On Wednesday, 12-year-old Irwin High School student Deanna Solomon was crushed by a Montego Bay Metro bus after she fell under the vehicle on being pushed by fellow students in a scramble to board the unit.

A day later, 17-year-old grade 11 William Knibb Memorial High School student Rodrique Frank succumbed to injuries he received on Sunday in a motor vehicle crash in his Deeside community in Trelawny.

Police report that he was thrown from a motorcycle he was driving on the road in his community.

As word of his death started to circulate, residents of Culloden, Westmoreland, awoke to news that two eight-year-old boys had been burnt to death early Thursday morning in a house fire that residents claimed had its foundation in negligence.

According to residents, the fire that took the lives of New Hope Primary and Junior High School students Jamar Reid and Romaine Powell was sparked by an unattended candle.

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