Fears for father and five children after fire off coast of Brisbane

Police say brothers – aged 11, 10, four-year-old twins and a three year old – and their 34-year-old father unaccounted following fire on Russell Island

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Five young boys aged between three and 11 years and their father, 34, are feared dead after a fire broke out in a home on an island off the coast of Brisbane.

The blaze started at the Todman Street house on Russell Island just after 6am on Sunday and spread to other premises, razing three.

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