A 10-year-old girl has died and a woman and three children have been treated in hospital after an early morning house fire in Bradford.
West Yorkshire fire and rescue service sent three crews to the fire at a residential property in the Bolton Outlanes area of the city at 1.05am on Sunday.
Police said the girl had been inside in the house and was pronounced dead at the scene. A 37-year-old woman and three children aged 11, six and three, were taken to hospital for treatment with non-life-threatening injuries.
Pictures from the scene show a shattered and fire-scorched window on the upstairs floor of the semi-detached house. Police and fire investigators are working to establish the cause of the blaze but it is not being treated as suspicious.
DCI Zaheer Abbas of West Yorkshire police said: “This is an absolutely tragic incident in which a young child has lost her life, our thoughts are with her family at this time. Our investigation with the fire service has deemed that the fire was not suspicious.
“The family are being supported by specially trained officers, a file will now be prepared for the coroner in due course.”
The fire service said it had sent three crews, two from Bradford and one from Shipley, which used two hose reels and four breathing apparatuses at the scene.
