Gardai were yesterday examining the scene of a fire at a halting site in Dun Laoghaire, Co Dublin, in which a six-year-old girl died on Saturday night.
The body of Johanna Connors was taken to St Columcille's Hospital, Loughlinstown.
A post-mortem was carried out yesterday.
Five other people, including the victim's mother and seven year-old brother, escaped from the fire in a mobile home in a car park at the rear of Dun Laoghaire's west pier at 10.30 p.m. One elderly woman escaped when she was dragged out the caravan's window.
Two crime scene examiners from Dun Laoghaire station at the scene of the fire yesterday told The Irish Times there were no indications the fire was started maliciously.
Investigations are continuing, but the cause was probably accidental, possibly due to cooking equipment, said gardai.
The caravan was almost entirely destroyed. Gardai and the Dun Laoghaire harbour police said the family had moved from the scene, but they did not know where they were staying.
The other two caravans at the site were empty yesterday, with almost all possessions removed.
A van parked beside the caravan was also burned out in the fire.
One caravan has been in the corner of the car park for about 11/2 years.
The mobile home destroyed and another caravan arrived at the site in the last nine months, said gardai.
Last year, Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council officially designated the area a halting site and provided two portable toilets, a skip and access to a water hydrant for the Travellers, said a member of Dun Laoghaire's harbour police.
Harbour police said other Travellers, who sometimes slept in shelters in Dun Laoghaire, occasionally stayed at the halting site.
Harbour police said one of its patrols passed the site 10 minutes before the fire.
No explosions were reported. Two units of the fire brigade were at the scene within 15 minutes, and the fire was quickly extinguished.