Tributes flow for 'beautiful' four-year-old twins killed in house fire near Byron Bay
The mother of identical twin girls who were tragically killed in a house fire near Byron Bay on Sunday has taken to social media to share her sorrow.
"Words cannot express waking up to Day 3 of these beautiful bunnikins not here...no more mumma...no more hands...no more smiles," Akira Garton wrote.
Her four-year-old daughters, Ophelia and Tarrow, were unable to be revived when police arrived to fire at the property where they were sleeping just after 4am on Sunday.
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Akira Garton and her twin daughters. Supplied
A burnt piano is at the centre of the police investigation, with suggestions a lit candle may have caused it to smoulder, creating toxic smoke where the girls were asleep.
Superintendent Dave Roptell from Tweed Byron Police said the incident was "just a tragic set of circumstances".
"It's unbelievably devastating to see not only two young people die, but two four-year-old females," he said.
Flowers left by the house where twins were killed in a fire near Byron Bay on Sunday. Nine
Today bunches of flowers adorned a letterbox outside the property, while other family members took to Facebook to speak on the tragedy.
"They were my granddaughters...there are two families grieving. We need your strength and support," their grandmother shared.
Two online fundraising pages have been set up to support the families.
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