A 4-year-old child has died after a fire in Harlem that also took the life of her mother.
Papa Kante tells CBS2 his daughter, Aissata, passed away Tuesday. The fire started around 1:30 a.m. Friday inside an apartment building at the corner of West 112th Street and Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard.
Kante said he was at work when his wife, 37-year-old Adianatou-Nene Korouma, called him in a panic, saying she and their children couldn’t get out because of the smoke.
Korouma, their daughter and their 3-week-old son, Souleymane, were taken to a local hospital. Korouma was pronounced dead Friday.
Kante says their daughter had been stable, but she took a turn and died Tuesday.
A GoFundMe has been set up to help Kante pay for his wife and his daughter’s funerals.