By Press Association 2021
Heysham blast
A gas explosion that killed a toddler was caused by a pipe which had been cut in a neighbouring house, police have said.
George Arthur Hinds, aged two years and 10 months, died in the blast in Heysham, Lancashire, on Sunday May 16.
His parents Vicky Studholme and Stephen Hinds were also injured, but not seriously, and a 44-year-old man and 50-year-old woman remain in hospital with critical injuries.
Two-year-old George Arthur Hinds (Lancashire Police/PA)
A Lancashire Police spokesman said the inquiry into the explosion, which happened at 2.40am, is now being classed as a criminal investigation.
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George Arthur Hinds: Explosion that killed toddler in Lancashire caused by cut gas pipe, say police
An explosion that killed a toddler in Heysham, Lancashire, was caused by a cut gas pipe inside a neighbouring house, police have said.
Detectives said they had launched a criminal investigation into how the pipe came to be severed in number 20 Mallowdale Avenue, with inquiries still ongoing.
George Arthur Hinds, who was aged two years and 10 months, died in the blast in the early hours of Sunday 16 May.
Police have begun a criminal investigation into a gas explosion that killed a young boy after finding a severed pipe in the neighbouring house.George Arthur Hinds, who would have turned three in two
A gas explosion that killed a two-year-old boy was caused by a cut gas pipe inside a neighbouring house, police have said. George Arthur Hinds died in the blast in Heysham, Lancashire, on 16 May. The police inquiry into the incident is ongoing but a Lancashire constabulary spokesperson confirmed it was now being classed as a criminal investigation. George’s parents, Vicky Studholme and Stephen Hinds, were also injured, but not seriously, and a.
Explosion that killed toddler in Heysham caused by cut gas pipe, police say
Police said the cut pipe was found in 20 Mallowdale Avenue
18:26, 24 MAY 2021
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