Two children, aged seven and 11, died in a fire in a house in Hobro on Monday night.
This is what Poul Fastergaard, duty officer from North Jutland Police, tells Nordjyske.
The police received the report of the fire in the house on Mariagervej at 01.36.
When the police arrived together with the North Jutland Emergency Management Agency, the house was on fire.
It made them ask for assistance from the fire station in Mariager, the emergency services announced around two o’clock on Twitter.
An hour later, firefighters had brought the fire under control. Here, the emergency services were able to inform on Twitter that they had started the post-extinguishing work.
The children’s mother and cohabitant came out of the house. They were taken to the hospital in Aalborg, where the cohabitant is being treated for smoke damage, the media writes.
Failed to rescue the two children from the burning building.
On Monday morning, the police and emergency services are still working on the spot – also to put out the fire completely, writes Nordjyske.
The cause of the fire is currently unknown.