ASTANA, November 30 (RIA Novosti) - Three children died in a fire in a private house in southern Kazakhstan, local emergencies services reported on Monday.

"Bodies of three children, aged two, four and six years, were discovered in a private house in the village of Belkol in the Kyzylordinsk Region on Sunday, while the fire was extinguished," the emergencies services said in a statement.

Firemen were fighting the fire for more than two hours, the statement said.