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Authorities ID Man Who Died in Northeast Nebraska Fire

fireSOUTH YANKTON, Neb. (AP) — Authorities have identified a man who died in a mobile home fire in northeast Nebraska.

The Cedar County Sheriff’s Office on Friday said 70-year-old Daniel Leader, of Crofton, died in the fire. Leader died of smoke inhalation.

Firefighters were dispatched around 2:30 p.m. Wednesday to the mobile home about three miles south of South Yankton.

Sheriff Larry Koranda said in a statement that Leader was found and pronounced dead at the scene.

The cause of the fire remains under investigation.

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