Tokyo:
Four members of one family, including two young children, died in a fire that broke out early on Sunday at a church in the central Ishikawa prefecture of Japan.
The four victims are believed to be Ayako Takabuchi, 37, her two sons, aged two and four, and her 68-year-od mother, local police said.
They had built the church next to their home in Nonoichi city in order to practise their Shinto-derived Tenri-kyo religion, police said.
"Rescuers recovered four bodies from the gutted building," a local police spokesman said.
"They are believed to be Takabuchi, two boys and her mother as we have not been able to contact them since the fire."
The four victims are believed to be Ayako Takabuchi, 37, her two sons, aged two and four, and her 68-year-od mother, local police said.
They had built the church next to their home in Nonoichi city in order to practise their Shinto-derived Tenri-kyo religion, police said.
"Rescuers recovered four bodies from the gutted building," a local police spokesman said.
"They are believed to be Takabuchi, two boys and her mother as we have not been able to contact them since the fire."
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