A two-year-old girl has tragically died after a caravan caught fire at a holiday park, police have stated.
Officers were called to reports of a fire at 10:30pm on August 23, where a caravan at Sealands Caravan Park in Lincolnshire was ablaze.
A woman and three of her children were able to escape the caravan safely as it caught fire, but her fourth child has tragically lost her life at the holiday park. The woman and her children received medical attention at hospital and have since been discharged.
The Mirror reports that about 50 people from surrounding caravans were asked to vacate their vans.
They have been able to go to emergency accommodation created at a leisure site.
Lincolnshire Police said they expect to remain at the scene for the rest of the day as they carry out their investigation.
The cause of the fire has not yet been established.
Police are appealing for anyone who may have video footage of the fire to come forward.
Detective Inspector Jo Fortune, Senior Investigating Officer, said: “This is a devastating incident for all involved. We are in the very early stages of our investigations and the circumstances which led to the fire are not yet clear. We will be working closely with specialist teams to understand what happened.
“We would like to appeal to anyone who was there last night and has not yet spoken to police to come forward, and for anyone with video footage to please share that with officers to add to our intelligence of the incident. This is particularly harrowing, with a family losing a child, and we’d ask that people remember those victims and not share footage online.”
Police can be contacted via email at force.control@lincs.police.uk and referencing incident 469 of 23 August in the subject box, or via the non-emergency number 101, quoting incident 469 of 23 August.
Furthermore, information can be submitted through the independent charity Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111 or online at crimestoppers-uk.org.
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