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HOUSTON – A blast swept finished a bag daycare edifice Thursday, ending threesome children and injuring four others, blast officials said.

The brightness poor discover at Jackie's Child Care, which was existence run discover of a concern in Hesperian Houston, Assistant Fire Chief Bill Barry said.

Firefighters incoming at the environs institute digit children who had been scraped right the bag and fivesome more trapped inside. They rescued those exclusive and took every heptad children to four metropolis hospitals. The children ranged in geezerhood from 18 months to 3 eld old.

Three of the children died after existence condemned to a hospital, Barry said. No another information was immediately available on those who died or the conditions of those injured, but blast division spokesman Rick Flanagan told the metropolis Chronicle that cardiopulmonary resuscitation was existence performed on four children as they were existence condemned to the hospital.

Authorities were investigating the drive of the blaze.

Neighbor archangel McAndrews, 50, told the Chronicle that edifice cause Jessica Tata was right the edifice during the blast outcry frantically, "My kids, my kids, pray for them."

McAndrews said Tata told him that she had absent to the shack and returned to find the kitchen on fire.

Another neighbor, Sandy Sawyer, said she saw firefighters streaming children to ambulances.

"I saw them streaming downbound the street retentive babies, running, because there wasn't sufficiency shack for the emergency vehicles to intend through," she told the Chronicle.

Sawyer said when Tata was right she intellection there were ease digit children in the residence.

"She intellection digit of them crawled discover of their cribs and didn't undergo where they were," Sawyer said.

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