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2 Killed In Overnight Fire At Upper West Side Apartment Building

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) -- Two people were killed when a fire broke out overnight on the Upper West Side.

It happened just after 11:30 p.m. Wednesday inside a fourth floor apartment at a six story building on West 62nd Street.

Firefighters rescued a 44-year-old man and 70-year-old woman, but they later died at St. Luke's Roosevelt Hospital.

A third victim suffered minor injuries.

There's no word on the victims' names or the cause of the fire.

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