By Associated Press - Saturday, May 27, 2017

COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) - Authorities in Columbia, Missouri, are trying to determine what caused a house fire that killed a 4-year-old boy.

Columbia police say firefighters found Zadrian Harper unresponsive in a bedroom of the home during the fire reported shortly after noon Friday. He later died at a hospital.

Police say an adult and four children were in the house when the fire broke out.



No one else was injured.

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