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The fire started at around 3:45 a.m. at the house on Hoang Hoa Tham Street. At this time, there were three people inside, two adults and a child.
People living nearby knocked on the door to notify them but there was no response.
Ngo Quoc Tien, a neighbor, said that when he saw the fire, he used a ladder to climb to the second floor and heard a child crying. However, due to the fire, he could not go inside to save the victim.
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The house where the fire broke out in Bac Giang Province is blocked off so that police examine the scene. Photo by Viet An |
Police dispatched five vehicles and firefighters to the scene. The fire was extinguished at about 4:45 a.m.
In addition to the boy, the two other victims were his 43-year-old mother, the home owner, and her friend, a 47-year-old man.
According to the police, the fire started from the first floor where there were an electric bicycle and a washing machine.
Police said the cause of the fire was probably an electrical short circuit.
