A woman and four children were killed in a late-night house fire in Franklin Township, Carbon County, the Carbon County Coroner's office said.

The fire began at 12:21 a.m. Wednesday at a home on Willow Street.

The Carbon County Coroner's Office says the five victims are an adult woman, three male children and one female child.

Three of the children killed in the fire were students in the Lehighton Area School District, the superintendent of schools said on the district website .

"While details are not publicly available as of yet, we have reason to believe that three Lehighton students, a Kindergartner, First Grader, and a Ninth Grader perished in this tragic event," Superintendent Jason Moser said.

"Please keep the families, friends, classmates, and anyone who has a close relation

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