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Five Palestinian children killed in West Bank fire

2011-11-27 04:10:01 GMT+7 (ICT)

TULKAREM, WEST BANK (BNO NEWS) -- Five Palestinian children were killed on early Saturday morning when a fire ripped through their house in the northern West Bank village of Qaffin, officials said.

Five children of the same family - three boys and two girls aged between 5 and 12 - died when a fire broke out in their ground floor bedroom. By the time firefighters and police reached the scene, all the children were already dead.

The parents of the children were also injured in the fire as they tried to rescue their children. They were both taken to a local hospital, the Ma'an news agency reported on its website, but their conditions were not immediately known.

An initial investigation suggests that candles had been lit in the room of the children before they went to sleep, causing the fire, the Palestinian civil defense service said in a statement. An investigation is ongoing.

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