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NY: House fire kills 7 children

India Blooms News Service | | 21 Mar 2015, 09:18 pm
New York, Mar 21 (IBNS) At least seven children were killed as fire broke out in a house in New York city's Brooklyn area on Saturday, media reports said.

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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