A 4-year-old girl died after being pulled from a fire Sunday night on St. Paul's East Side, authorities said.
The child, identified by relatives as Ntshialiag Yang, had initially been rescued by firefighters and taken to a hospital with what were described earlier as "serious injuries."
"We're still in shock," Michael Yang, Nstshialiag's uncle, said Monday morning. "Everybody wants the little girl to come back."
The fire broke out in the 500 block of E. Jessamine Avenue in the city's Payne-Phalen neighborhood.
Three other family members also were treated at the scene for "various levels of smoke inhalation," according to a St. Paul Fire Department tweet.
The death was St. Paul's first fire fatality of 2015.
The Ramsey County medical examiner's office will determine the cause of death, the fire department said.
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