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A raging fire tore through a home in Queens early this morning, killing two people, critically injuring two others and sending four more to local hospitals, where they were expected to survive serious injuries, the FDNY said.

The blaze, in the two-and-a-half story home at 93-20 211th Street in Queens Village, broke out just before midnight, and gutted the building.

Jatinder Singh, a relative who rushed to the scene, said he and all the occupants of the house are members of the same extended family. “We lost everything,” he said.

Neighbor Kevin Govindad said, “You could hear everybody screaming, `Somebody call 911! Somebody call 911!’ The whole house went up in flames. It started from the left side and spread.”

He saw firefighters taking victims – some on stretchers – out of the house.

“Some of them were severely burned — legs, faces, hands. They were black with smoke.”

The victims were taken to Jamaica, Long Island Jewish and Queens General hospitals.

The cause of the three-alarm inferno — which was fought by some 140 firefighters — was not immediately known.

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