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2 Siblings Dead In Cass County Mobile Home Fire

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO/AP) - The two victims who died in a mobile home fire in Northern Minnesota Saturday have been identified as April Saunders, 23, and her brother Markus Saunders, 21, both of Cohasset, Minnesota.

Officers and firefighters arrived to find the mobile home engulfed in flames. A woman and two teenage girls were able to escape and were taken to the Deer River hospital with minor injuries.

Burch says the bodies of a man and a woman were found inside the home.

Autopsies are scheduled with the Ramsey County medical examiner's office. Names of the victims have not been released.

The State Fire Marshal's office and the Cass County sheriff's office are investigating.

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