<p><br /> Four young children have died in a house fire in a Derbyshire village.<br /> </p><p><br /> Emergency services were called to a house in Hulland Ward, near Ashbourne at 11.30pm on Monday night.<br /> </p><p><br /> Derbyshire Police said that, when the blaze at the house in Highfield Road was extinguished, four children were found to have died.<br /> </p><p><br /> A spokesman said: "Four young children, two girls and two boys, have died."<br /> </p><p><br /> He said there was also "significant damage" to the house.<br /> </p><p><br /> "There is currently a joint investigation ongoing between Derbyshire Constabulary and Derbyshire Fire Service to establish the cause of the fire, which at this time is still unknown."<br /> </p>
