Four young children have died in a house fire in a Derbyshire village.
Emergency services were called to a house in Hulland Ward, near Ashbourne at 11.30pm on Monday night.
Derbyshire Police said that, when the blaze at the house in Highfield Road was extinguished, four children were found to have died.
A spokesman said: "Four young children, two girls and two boys, have died."
He said there was also "significant damage" to the house.
"There is currently a joint investigation ongoing between Derbyshire Constabulary and Derbyshire Fire Service to establish the cause of the fire, which at this time is still unknown."
