4 Arrested Over Lancashire House Explosion in Which Young Child Died

Emergency workers at the scene of a suspected gas explosion, in which a young child was killed and two people were seriously injured, on Mallowdale Avenue, Heysham, UK, on May 16, 2021. Danny Lawson/PA

Four people have been arrested in connection with an explosion at a house in Heysham, Lancashire, in which a young child died.

Emergency services were called to the scene on Mallowdale Avenue in the early hours of May 16, and found two houses had collapsed with a third seriously damaged.