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A man and a boy were killed in an early Sunday morning fire in Brooklyn.
The flames broke out shortly after midnight on the second floor of a three-story building on Hancock Street in Bushwick.
The 12- and 33-year-old male victims were taken to Wyckoff Hospital where they were pronounced dead.
Meanwhile, autopsies are set to be performed today on the five people who were killed in yesterday morning's deadly apartment fire in Manhattan.
The fire occurred in a sixth-floor apartment at the Robert Fulton Houses on 18th Street and Ninth Avenue in Chelsea.
Maschay Joa Valdez, 40, and Delkis Balbuena, 34, were killed, along with their three daughters, aged eight years, three years and 15 months.
Fire officials said the family died of smoke inhalation after the fire started in the kitchen and spread to the living room.
A 10-year-old boy was taken to Jacobi Hospital in critical condition.
Firefighters said there was a hard-wired smoke detector in the apartment that was unplugged and the battery that served as backup had been removed.
New York City Housing Authority officials said the detector was checked twice this year and worked properly both times.
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