DELAWARE CITY, Del., Oct. 4 (UPI) -- A 19-year-old mother and her two young daughters were killed in an early morning house fire in Delaware, fire officials said.
Firefighters responded to a call before 6 a.m. Monday and found a row house ablaze on Clinton Street in Delaware City, The Philadelphia Inquirer reported.
They found the mother and the two girls, ages 3 years and 8 months, on the third floor.
Attempts to resuscitate them were unsuccessful, and they were taken to a local hospital where they were pronounced dead, the newspaper said.
Most of the fire was at the rear of the first and second floors, fire officials said, and residents of an adjacent house were evacuated.
The identities of the victims were not released, and the cause of the fire was still under investigation, officials said.
