The National Fire Authority is currently investigating the cause of the fire at a house in Solovi, Nadi where a mother and her daughter lost their lives yesterday.
NFA recovered the bodies of the 33-year-old woman and her 9-year-old daughter from the razed home late yesterday.
Family members have said that the woman took her daughter in the house and started the fire in one of the rooms.
She was going through some relationship problems with her husband and had a matter in court.
The number of house fire deaths so far this year is seven and the number of property fires is 26.
