Seven siblings in Syria have reportedly been killed by a fire that broke out overnight in their apartment in the old quarter of the country's capital Damascus.
Police have told state media that the siblings were aged between three and 13, and their bodies were taken to a nearby hospital.
The cause of the Tuesday night fire in the fourth-floor apartment is not immediately known, but the report says it might have been caused by an electric heater.
It gave no mention of the fate of siblings' parents.
The fire brigade says the fire caused an artificial ceiling to collapse inside the apartment.
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