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hrmjustin

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Fri Jul 12, 2013, 01:28 PM Jul 2013

Bronx Grandmother Killed, Three Others Hurt In Early Morning Fire

NY1News



A Bronx woman is dead and three others injured, including a five-year-old girl, after a fire tore through a Bronx apartment early Friday morning.

Flames broke out shortly before 4 a.m. on the second floor of a home located at 326 Swinton Avenue in Throgs Neck.

A family friend identified the victim as 55-year-old Enriqueta Velez, known in the neighborhood as Ketty.

Police and firefighters pulled a 55-year-old man and a 75-year-old man along with the girl.

Read more at http://www.ny1.com/content/top_stories/185395/bronx-grandmother-killed--three-others-hurt-in-early-morning-fire

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