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Amber Alert issued for missing kids thought to be dead

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Posted: Fri 9:18 PM, Sep 28, 2012

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- Authorities have issued an Amber Alert for two Tennessee children missing since a fire destroyed their home five days ago, saying there is no sign they were victims of the blaze.

The TBI issued the alert Friday evening. Investigators returned to the scene of the Shelbyville house fire in which two bodies were found, tentatively identified as the children's grandparents.

The TBI says several fire experts had gone through the debris and were unable to find evidence that 9-year-old Chloie Leverette and her half-brother, 7-year-old Gage Daniel, died in Sunday's blaze.

The agency issued an endangered child alert for the children Wednesday after they could not find their remains.


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