KINSTON, N.C. (AP) — Authorities say a child has died in a fire that broke out in a mobile home in North Carolina. A news release posted on the Lenoir County Sheriff Office’s Facebook page says emergency medical workers treated three other people at the scene of the fire in Kinston early Sunday. Officials didn’t immediately release the name and age of the child who died in the fire. WRAL-TV reports that the mobile home was engulfed in flames when firefighters arrived around 1:30 a.m. Lenoir County officials are investigating the fire with assistance from the State Bureau of Investigation and the Office of the State Fire Marshal.

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