POTOSI, Mo. (AP) – Fire officials say two people, including a child, died in a rural eastern Missouri house fire earlier this week. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that the fire broke out Monday in a house near Potosi in Washington County. Potosi Fire Department Lt. Robert Lang Jr. says fire crews were called around 5:30 p.m. Monday to the house in the unincorporated community of Cadet. Arriving firefighters found the house fully engulfed in flames. Lang said crews later found the bodies of two people — a 53-year-old woman and her 11-year-old grandchild. Officials have not released their names. Autopsies were performed Tuesday. Fire officials have not said what caused the fire.
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