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A PRE-DAWN FIRE IN STARKVILLE, MISSISSIPPI, THIS MORNING has killed nine people, six of them children, in an apartment building. The State fire marshal Mike Chaney said that the fire was discovered around 4 am Monday and that all of the victims were in the same unit where the fire broke out.
WCBI-TV
Chaney also announced that the victims were a 25-year-old woman, two 19-year-old women and children ranging in age from 2 to 6. Five of them were residents of the apartment and the other four were visitors. The coroner’s office is working to determine the cause of deaths. Officials tell WCBI-TV that there were smoke detectors in the building and they were working.
Firefighter Nation has more HERE.
The Associated Press has filed this brief video report:
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