Post date: Mar 09, 2011 8:42:55 PM
Fire engulfed a farmhouse in Pennsylvania, killing seven children while their mother milked cows in a nearby barn and their father was out driving a milk delivery truck. Jon Decker reports.
USA-FIRE CHILDREN - Tragedy in Pennsylvania.
Seven Mennonite children were killed on Tuesday after a fire tore through their family farmhouse near the state capital of Harrisburg.
According to authorities, the fire started as the mother was milking the family's cows and the father was nearby in the family's delivery truck. State troopers say the couple's three-year-old daughter smelled smoke and ran off to find their mother. By the time she returned to the house with her mother, the building was engulfed in flames.
The children are believed to have died from smoke inhalation. The cause of the fire is still unknown.
Jon Decker, Reuters.