Seven children have been killed in a fire at a farmhouse in Pennsylvania.
The children - aged from seven months to 11 years - died last night when the fire fully engulfed the Mennonite family's two-story house in Loysville, about 40km northwest of Harrisburg, Tom Pinkerton of the state police said.
CNN reported that the parents, who were outside the house at the time of the fire, survived, as did another child.
The father was taking a nap in his milk truck after making a few stops along his delivery route, Mr Pinkerton said. The mother was milking cows in the barn.
"While mom's milking cows, her three-year-old daughter comes running into the barn and the three-year-old tells the mother that there's smoke inside the house," Mr Pinkerton said. "Mom leaves the barn, comes running out, sees that the house appears to be on fire."
The mother went to two neighbours' houses before she could get someone to call emergency services, he said. She then found her husband sleeping in his milk truck and they rushed back to the home to find their home engulfed in flames and firefighters trying to put out the blaze.
The children were found dead inside the house.