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Private house fire kills 3 in Russia

Xinhua, July 22, 2016 Adjust font size:

Three children were killed in a house fire in a town in Russia's Yakutia region, the Russian State Fire Service said Friday.

The bodies of two little girls and one boy were found in the house, it said.

"The children's mother locked them in the house and went to a bank. The fire burned an area of 51 square meters," the fire service said.

The identities of the victims and the cause of the fire are yet to be determined, it said. Endi