Two children die in Stallings blaze
STALLINGS, N.C. – A house fire Wednesday afternoon has left two young children dead in Union County.
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The fire broke out at around 1 p.m. in the 4000 block of Cyprus Court in the Country Woods East neighborhood in Stallings, police said.
When firefighters arrived at the scene they were met with a fierce blaze, and once inside they discovered the bodies of the two young girls - age four and five.
Firefighters were met with a fierce blaze when they arrived at the scene.
The mother of the two girls managed to escape the blaze with her youngest child, 3, uninjured.
The cause of the fire is not yet known, and the investigation is on-going.
The names of the victims were not released by authorities.