Four children aged three, five, seven and eleven years died Sunday in a fire in a camp of Roma in the Italian capital, told AFP spokesman Fire of Rome.
"The bodies were charred and half it could be that there is a fifth victim," he said."Checks are under way, the fire has just been extinguished," he added.
ANSA news agency reported, four others are missing.
The fire broke out, for reasons still unknown, around 8:30 p.m. (1930 GMT) in a hut in a camp located along the Appia Nuova, one of the great arteries from the Porta San Giovanni, in the east of the city towards the airport of Ciampino.
According to NGOs, ten thousands of Roma living in the Italian capital and its suburbs.Most live in illegal settlements whose next closure was announced last year by the city of Rome.
Three new legal settlements, as there are already seven around the Italian capital, must be built by late 2011 with the aim to host 6000 Roma.
