A two-year-old boy and his four-year-old sister died of smoke inhalation in a fire which broke out early Tuesday in their home in the Druze Golan village of Majdal Shams.

Family members took the stricken children to the Magen David Adom emergency medicine clinic in the village, where efforts were made to resuscitate them, but to no avail. The two children were pronounced dead.

The fire erupted while the two children were alone in the house, situated in the Hahar neighborhood, which is relatively far from the center of town. The children's father works in construction in Tel Aviv and their mother had gone to a medical clinic in town for tests.