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Authorities investigate fatal Kansas house fire

fatal fireHARTFORD, Kan. (AP) — Authorities have identified a person killed in a weekend house fire in eastern Kansas.

The Emporia Gazette reports that the fire was reported Sunday at a home in Hartford. The Lyon County Sheriff’s Department says in a release that the coroner’s office identified the person found dead at the scene as 53-year-old Mearl Edvin Whillock II.

The cause of the fire and the cause of death are under investigation.

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