7-year-old girl dies, becomes 10th Bronx fire fatality

? A 7-year-old girl lost her two-day battle for life, becoming the 10th victim of a devastating Bronx fire that also killed all her siblings and her mother.

Asimi Soumare died late Friday, as the bodies of other victims were being prepared for their funeral Monday: Asimi’s twin baby sisters, 4-year-old brother and mother, as well as five others – children of Manthia and Moussa Magassa, who shared the three-story brick home with the Soumare family.

The last time Mamadou Soumare heard his wife’s voice, she was screaming amid the fire Wednesday after frantically calling him on his cell phone while he was driving his livery cab.

Naralee Magassa, a 22-year-old member of the family, was asleep with her 5-year-old daughter when a space heater in the house’s garden-level apartment sparked the fire. She tried to douse it with pots of water before alerting anyone.

Asimi’s death was attributed to complications due to smoke inhalation, said Ellen Borakove, spokeswoman for the city medical examiner.

The blaze was New York City’s deadliest since 1990’s Happy Land fire, which killed 87 people in the Bronx.

On Saturday morning at Francisco’s funeral home in East Harlem, the bodies of the dead were ritually washed and wrapped in white cotton in preparation for the Muslim funeral.

The Magassa children were to be buried in Millstone, N.J., and Soumare’s family in their native Mali, in West Africa.

New York Yankees owner George Steinbrenner has pledged to pay the funeral and burial expenses, including the cost of flying the bodies to Africa.

The fire was a short walk from the location of a new Yankee Stadium now under construction.

Another of Moussa’s children, a 6-year-old girl, remained in critical condition at Jacobi Medical Center.