Young woman dies in Cork house fire

A young woman has died in a house fire in Co Cork.

It happened in Midleton in the early hours of this morning.

A 22 year old woman is dead & 3 others treated for smoke inhalation after a house fire in Midleton Co Cork. #Tv3News pic.twitter.com/OQuyBFgo06

— Paul Byrne (@PaulByrne_1) July 5, 2014

At around 3.30am this morning, the alarm was raised after a blaze broke out at a house on the New Cork Road in Midleton.

The fire was in a terraced house on the Cork Rd, close to the Midleton Park Hotel. Three others in the house escaped without serious injury.

— Mary Smithwick (@MarySmithwick) July 5, 2014

Emergency services attended the scene. A 22-year-old woman was taken from the building and pronounced dead.

Two men males, aged 65 and 27 respectively, and a 31-year-old female, were brought to the Mercy Hospital in Cork City suffering minor injuries and have since been released.

The scene has been preserved this morning for a technical examination.

An investigation is underway into what might have caused the fire, but Gardaí say that at this stage they are not treating it as suspicious.