Six people — four children and two adults — died in a house fire Sunday in Charles County, Maryland, the state fire marshal said. The blaze was reported at about 8:40 a.m. on North Declaration Court in the Waldorf area of the county, authorities said. No cause could be learned immediately.

Six people, including two adults and four children, died in a Waldorf house fire that erupted early Sunday morning in the 3000 block of Declaration Court North, Charles County. The blaze, reported around 8:40 a.

Nine people lived in the house, according to authorities. Three of them died, three escaped, and three remain missing.