In an update to our earlier reports, authorities say two young girls died, and two adults, a male and female, were injured, one of them critically, during a house fire in Guthrie Center early Monday morning. The Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation says the Guthrie Center Fire Department was called to a fire at a house on main street at 12:27 a-m.

The person who suffered critical injuries was flown to a hospital in Omaha for treatment. The D-C-I says autopsies will be used to identify the two young people who died. No names have been officially released. The State Fire Marshal is investigating the cause of the fire.