Brothers Killed in Italy as Fire Rips Through Flat

Brothers Killed in Italy as Fire Rips Through Flat
An ambulance, in southern Italy, on Dec. 28, 2014. Carlo Hermann/AFP via Getty Images
The Associated Press
Updated:

Three young brothers died and four other people were injured in a fire that broke out Friday night in an apartment in Catanzaro, Calabria.

According to firefighters, a family of seven people lived in the apartment, including the three young sibilings, 12, 14, and 22, who died inside the apartment and were found by firefighters while extinguishing the fire.

The other four people, the two parents and two other siblings aged 12 and 16, were rescued and hospitalized in serious condition, two of them with severe burns.

The occupants of the adjacent apartment were evacuated, while the cause of the fire is still to be determined.