Serbian authorities said a house fire in a northern town on Friday morning left six people dead, four of them children.
The fire broke out around 3 a.m. in Novi Sad, the capital of the autonomous province of Vojvodina, about 90 kilometers north of Belgrade, Serbian Interior Minister Ivica Dacic said.
An emergency doctor told state broadcaster RTS that all six were already dead when the medical team arrived at the scene.
Minister Dacic said in a statement that according to preliminary investigations, the fire may have been caused by a scooter connected to the electrical network.
The children were between 2 and 7 years old, he said. Police are working to determine the identities of the victims, but it is believed that they are all members of the same family that lived in that home.
