New York Post

Lost angels include those ages 4, 5 & 6

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Several kids as young as 4 and 5 years old were among the fatal victims of Sunday’s Bronx blaze, while other children injured in the horror remained hospitaliz­ed, including two babies, according to authoritie­s.

Among the dead were a 4-year-old, two 5-year-old girls, a 6-year-old boy, a pair of 11-year-old girls and a 12-year-old boy, police said. The two 11-year-olds and one of the 5-year-olds shared the same last name, police sources told The Post.

The children still hospitaliz­ed include 7-month-old and 11-month-old girls, as well as at least eight other kids.

Renee Howard — a longtime resident of the ravaged building who escape her 19th-floor apartment with her son and godson — said she knew two of the tragic deceased children.

One of the 11-year-olds “had such beautiful angelic eyes,” Howard said.

“These are children. I saw the firefighte­rs taking the children out . . . the children of my community. Their lives have been taken and snatched away in a second. So we’re praying.”

Howard, a former teacher, said she doesn’t know if she will ever return to the high-rise herself. “I don’t wanna go back there,’’ she said.

Fanta Barrow, 45, said she found out Sunday that her 19-year-old cousin died in the fire. He dreamed of being a lawyer, she told The Post on Monday outside the ill-fated building.

“It’s not easy,’’ Barrow said, fighting back tears.

“He was a tall guy, very beautiful guy,’’ she said, offering only the phonetic spelling of the young man’s name. “He was lovely. He liked everybody.

“He was in school right now. I was talking to him, he said, ‘Auntie, I want to be a lawyer.’ I said, ‘Oh, you have to make money . . . I just pray for you.’ ”

The city has yet to release the names of the dead — and scores of relatives of missing potential victims are still desperatel­y trying to learn their fate.

Yusupha Jawara has been franticall­y searching for his brother and sister-in-law.

“I’ve been looking for my brother and his wife since yesterday. Nobody’s telling me anything,’’ he lamented to The Post on Monday. “They keep telling me to call 311, I call 311, they don’t have anything to tell me.

Julie Bolcer, a rep for the New York City Medical Examiner’s Office, told The Post on Monday that the ME currently has 17 dead from the fire in Bronx and Manhattan morgues. The victims are being identified virtually by their families because of COVID, ME officials said. Elizabeth Rossner,Reuven Fenton,

Tina Moore and Ben Kesslen

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