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Eleanor Lawson West Midlands

BBC

Two young children have died after a fire at a house on Mason Street in Wolverhampton

Police are investigating after two young children died in a house fire in Wolverhampton on Friday evening.

Officers from West Midlands Police were called to the fire in Mason Street at about 20:30 BST along with colleagues from West Midlands Fire Service and West Midlands Ambulance Service.

Firefighters entered the property and rescued two young children, but they could not be saved and were pronounced dead at the scene, police said.

Two other children and a woman were already out of the house before emergency services arrived and were checked over by ambulance staff but did not need hospital treatment.

West Midlands Police said they had cordoned off the scene as officers work to establish the exact circumstances of the fire

The fire service said firefighters had immediately provided emergency care to the two young children after rescuing them.

Medics worked "rapidly to…