Seven children were killed in a fire that tore through a family home in New York City's Brooklyn borough early Saturday, officials told BuzzFeed News.

The children, between the ages of 5 and 16, were all members of the same family and lived in the predominately Jewish Orthodox neighborhood of Midwood.

The victims were later identified by the NYPD as Eliane Sassoon, 16; her sisters Rivkah, 11; and Sara, 6; and brothers David, 12; Yeshua, 10; Moshe, 8; and Yaakob, 5.

The children's mother, Gayle, and a 15-year-old daughter, Siporah, survived, but were rushed to hospital in a critical condition.

"This is the largest tragedy by fire that this city has had in seven years," New York Fire Commissioner Daniel Nigro told reporters at the scene, according to the Associated Press. "It's a tragedy for this family, it's a tragedy for this community, it's a tragedy for the city."