When George Omondi went to bed with his wife and child in their iron-sheet home in Mathare B, Nairobi on Sunday night, he expected nothing more than a restful sleep.

But by midnight, his world had turned into a nightmare. "It was midnight, we were sleeping and I was in heavy sleep, then I heard my neighbour shouting fire.

When I got out, I found that the house was already in fire, smoke all over.

Coming out with my wife and child, we realised the stairs had caught fire and we could not go down.