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A 12-year-old girl died in a house fire in Ballykeel, Northern Ireland.
Police, ambulances and fire crews were called in just before 6 p.m. to the fire at a property on Staffa Drive.
The tragedy comes just hours after police announced that they had launched a murder investigation in the area for the death of 33-year-old Donald Fraser-Rennie.
He was found dead in a flat on nearby Crebilly Road.
Local Councilor Matthew Armstrong told Belfast Live: “My condolences to the family and everyone involved.
“It is an indescribable and unimaginable tragic event and one in an area that has sadly been no stranger to tragedies in the last short period of time.”
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Local independent councilman Rodney Quigley says Ballymena is paralyzed by the death of a girl in a house fire.
He said: “There has been a death, a 12-year-old girl sadly lost her life in a house fire.
“This is a horrible day for the Ballykeel area, the news we got this morning was pretty bad, I didn’t expect to be here tonight.
“There is a real numbness within this community after the death of this young woman tonight.”
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DUP Councilor Audrey Wales told the Belfast Telegraph: “This community must really be in such a state of shock, this is two disastrous news within 24 hours.”
A spokesperson for the Northern Ireland Ambulance Service said: ‘We received a call today at 5.50pm from the Northern Ireland Fire and Rescue Service (NIFRS) asking us to attend a fire scene in Ballykeel, Ballymena. one person in the building.
“We sent two emergency teams to the scene and an ambulance officer. One person was taken from the scene to the Antrim Area Hospital for treatment.”
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