5 Children Aged 13 and Under Killed in Arizona House Fire

Bullhead City fire that killed 5 children.Photo:12 News/Youtube

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Five children have died in a house fire in Arizona.

The blaze broke out in a home in Bullhead City on Saturday evening and the five children — aged 2, 4, 5, 11, and 13 — did not make it out of the two-story duplex, authorities said.

According to astatementfrom the Bullhead City Police Department released Sunday, thefatal fireoccurred in the 400 block of Anna Circle at around 5 p.m. local time.

The children’s names were not immediately released.

Four of the children were siblings and the fifth was a relative, Emily Fromelt, a spokesperson for Bullhead City Police Department, told PEOPLE in a statement.

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The four siblings were all residents at the duplex, which is near the Colorado River and Nevada-Arizona state line, while the fifth child did not live there.

Fromelt also confirmed no adults were home at the time of the fire and cause of the blaze is still under investigation.

source: people.com