A couple and their four children were killed in a house fire in south China early today.
The family was sleeping in their home on the first floor of a six-storey building in Baiyun district in Guangzhou, capital city of Guangdong Province, when a fire broke out, local authorities said.
They died of smoke inhalation even as the fire was put out by the local fire brigade, state-run Xinhua news agency reported.
Investigation into the cause of the blaze is underway.
