NY: House fire kills 7 children
The fire reportedly broke out at around 12:30 am, reports said.
"Three girls, ages 8, 12, 15, and four boys, ages 5, 6, 7 and 11, were all killed," The New York Times quoted the police as saying.
“This is the largest tragedy by fire that this city has had in seven years,” Daniel A. Nigro, the fire commissioner was quoted as saying y the newspaper.
“There was no evidence of smoke detectors on either the first or the second floor that may have alerted this family to the fire,” Nigro said.
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