Seven kids among 13 dead in Philadelphia house fire

Seven children were among 13 people killed in a fire at a converted three-story house in Philadelphia.

Seven children were among 13 people killed when a fire tore through a converted three-story house in Philadelphia on Wednesday in one of the United States' deadliest residential infernos in recent years.

Officials said another two people were hospitalized and eight escaped the deadly blaze which occurred in public housing in the eastern US city's popular museum district of Fairmount.