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Woman and three children die in 'heartbreaking' Bolton house fire | Woman and three children die in 'heartbreaking' Bolton house fire |
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Three children and a woman have died in a house fire in Bolton, police said. | Three children and a woman have died in a house fire in Bolton, police said. |
A man managed to escape the terraced house but two boys and a girl, all under the age of 13, and a woman were still inside. | A man managed to escape the terraced house but two boys and a girl, all under the age of 13, and a woman were still inside. |
One of the children was pronounced dead at the scene and the woman and two children died later in hospital. | One of the children was pronounced dead at the scene and the woman and two children died later in hospital. |
"These are utterly heart-breaking circumstances and our thoughts go out to anyone affected by this tragic incident," said Detective Chief Inspector Chris Bridge, from Greater Manchester Police's Bolton borough. "This appears to be a family home and we have been working to inform loved ones of this awful loss. | |
He added: "I know the community will feel the impact of this and I assure you we are working with our colleagues at GMFRS to get to the bottom of what happened, although we are currently not treating it as suspicious. | |
"This means there will be officers and fire investigators in the area for some time and I would like to thank residents for their patience so far. This happened on a Saturday morning when many people would be up and about and I would appeal to anyone with any information about this incident to please call us." | |
An eyewitness reported seeing two people being given CPR as emergency services tackled the fire. | |
She said she was alerted to a "commotion" at around 9am on Saturday and saw a man banging on a door of one of the terraced houses. | |
Crime scene investigators were at the scene, in the Daubhill area of the town, she said. | |
The woman said: "It's terrible, absolutely terrible. I saw them bringing people out. They were doing chest compressions. I saw them bring two out and then they put a green sheet up. I don't know if they were bringing fatalities out. | |
"It was 9am this morning when I heard all this commotion. Somebody - I don't know whether he lived there - there was just a load of hammering, banging on a door. I went to the window and saw smoke billowing. | |
"When I saw him after he had his hands bandaged up and his head. He either lived there and managed to get out or he was trying to get in." |
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