Four-year-old dies in house fire east of Cowra - ABC News & Headlines – Australian Broadcasting Corporation

A four-year-old child has died in a house fire in central western New South Wales.

Fire crews were called to the home in Woodstock, about 20 kilometres north-east of Cowra just before 3pm today.

They arrived to find the property well alight.

A woman and two other children were able to escape the blaze, but the four-year-old remained unaccounted-for.

Firefighters later found the body of the child inside the home after they managed to extinguish the fire.

The woman was taken to Cowra hospital in a stable condition with smoke inhalation.

Police have set up a crime scene, with inquiries into the circumstances surrounding the blaze ongoing.