A nine-year-old boy is believed to have died in the fire while girls aged four and seven died later in hospital from critical burns
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Two young children have died in hospital after a ferocious fire at a family home, taking the death toll to three.
The house in suburban Harristown in Toowoomba, about 130km west of Brisbane in the Darling Downs region, went up in flames in the early hours of Wednesday.
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