"It's all turned upside down": Family's pain as they lose 'everything' in huge warehouse fire

A young family, with a three-week-old baby, are facing up to the heartbreaking reality of 'starting life from zero' after a huge warehouse fire.

Khatera and Esmat Husseini have been in temporary accommodation with their children for four months, living in two hotels, as well as homes in Newton Heath and Oldham.

During that time, the family kept their belongings at the Armadillo Self Storage site at Stanley Green, which was hit by a 'deliberate' fire in the early hours of Saturday morning (February 26).

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Now, Khatera says the family have lost 'everything' - from furniture and clothes which can be replaced, to the treasured photographs and memories which are now lost forever.

She told the Manchester Evening News : "Now we have to start from zero. We have nothing.

"I can buy furniture and things like that. I can buy it new or second hand, I don't mind.

"But most things I can't replace. That's the thing that is destroying me - but I can't do anything."

Khatera moved to the UK from Afghanistan six years ago, where Esmat was already living.

The couple settled in Wythenshawe and had two sons - five-year-old Oscar and 17-month-old Osiris.

They became homeless last October when they left their rented home, while Khatera was pregnant, as their home had become 'unsafe' and the rent had begun to escalate.

The family were moved by Manchester City Council to a hotel for six weeks, before being found a property in Newton Heath.

But Khatera says the family were not given a guarantee for how long they could keep the property - and with Oscar attending Benchill Primary School, Esmat's