Police said a woman who died in an overnight Michigan motel fire was the mother of the five children who also perished.
The fire swept through the Cosmo Extended Stay Motel in Sodus Township early Saturday, roughly 100 miles, (160 kilometres), from Chicago.
The woman was identified as 26-year-old Kiarre Curtis .
Chief Deputy Robert Boyce of the Berrien County sheriff's office said Curtis was the mother of the five children who died.
They ranged in age from 2 to 10-years old.
Boyce said Curtis' husband and another child survived.
They were all staying in one room.
Boyce said the tragedy "tears at your heart.''
The cause of the fire was under investigation.
- With files from The Associated Press