AN inquest into the death of two West Yorkshire children killed by carbon monoxide gas while on holiday in Corfu is due to open.
Christianne Shepherd, seven, and her six-year-old brother Robert, from Horbury, were on a half-term trip with their father Neil, 38, and his girlfriend Ruth Beatson, 27, when they were poisoned last Thursday.
The children were killed by the gas, while the adults survived and are being treated at the Pinderfields General Hospital in Wakefield.
An inquest by coroner David Hinchcliffe will open at the coroner's court in Wakefield. The family group was staying in a hotel bungalow when the gas, believed to be from a suspected faulty boiler, seeped into the property,
Corfu's chief of security police, Dimitris Bineris, said Mr Shepherd told him he could remember trying to save his children before he collapsed and lost consciousness.
Sharon Wood, 35, also of Horbury, accompanied the coffins of the two children on a flight from Corfu on Monday after she had flown out to identify their bodies.
Greek authorities have suspended the permit of the hotel where the tragedy happened.
