Two children, ages 4 and 7, killed in fire
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Two young children were killed in a fire that destroyed a house located on Smith Lane in downtown Kingston on Saturday.
They have been identified by family members as Samson Cameron, 4, and Keriecia Hutchinson, 7, who was a grade one student at Calabar All-Age School.
Cameron was a student at Calabar Basic School.
The two were home alone at the time of the blaze, residents claim.
The deaths cast a pall of gloom over the community as relatives and residents openly wept on the shoulders of journalists.
It is not yet clear what caused the fire, which has since been brought under control by the Jamaica Fire Brigade.
The two children died despite the heroic efforts of one resident who soaked himself with water and entered the house to try and save them.
-- Audley Boyd
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