MANILA: Six members of the same family died after a fire struck a tent city set up for survivors of Super Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines on Wednesday, a police official said.

The overnight fire razed a tent used as a temporary shelter by survivors of Typhoon Haiyan, killing a woman and five of her children, including a 4-month-old girl, officials in a central Philippine city devastated by the massive storm said Wednesday.

The tragedy highlights the slow progress in the resettlement of tens of thousands of survivors of Haiyan, which struck more than six months ago and is one of the world’s strongest typhoons to make landfall.

The fire was caused by a kerosene lamp and quickly consumed the canvass tent just after midnight Tuesday, Tacloban city disaster management officer Derrick Anido said. The shelter was one of 40 in a “tent city” in San Jose district, which was wiped out by tsunami-like storm surges and fierce winds from Typhoon Haiyan in November.

The five children who died in the fire ranged in age from 4 months to 12 years old, Anido said. The woman’s 7-year-old son, the lone survivor, was fighting for his life in a government hospital.

The blaze broke out in a tent housing a couple and their six children in the central city of Tacloban after their home was destroyed by last year’s typhoon, said Chief Superintendent Henry Losanes, the area’s police chief.

The mother and her five children aged between four months and 12 years died while a sixth child was injured and is undergoing medical treatment, Losanes said.

The cause of the blaze is still being determined, he added.

The family was one of thousands left homeless when Haiyan, the most powerful typhoon ever to hit land, struck the central Philippines on Nov. 6, 2013.