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A mother and two children died in a house fire in Alexandria early Friday morning. The father and a third child were seriously injured.
 
A young mother and two of her three children were killed in an early morning house fire in Alexandria on Friday. Her spouse and their third child — whom he saved by jumping out of a window — were rushed to hospital with serious injuries and remained there later Friday morning.
 
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A mother and two children died in a house fire in Alexandria early Friday morning. The father and a third child were seriously injured.

Five dead in Ont./Que. house fires

Five people, including two children, died early Friday morning in house fires in Ontario and Quebec.

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