A two-year-old girl has died after a caravan caught fire at a holiday park in Lincolnshire.
Police said the toddler’s mother and her three other children survived after escaping the vehicle at Sealands caravan park in Ingoldmells, near Skegness.
DI Jo Fortune, the senior investigating officer at Lincolnshire police, 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.”
Police were called to reports of a fire at at 10.30pm on Monday. The rest of the family received medical attention at hospital and have since been discharged, the force said.
About 50 people from surrounding caravans were moved to emergency accommodation at a nearby leisure centre as fire crews tackled the blaze.
Detectives appealed for witnesses with any information or video footage to come forward as the investigation began on Tuesday.
Fortune said: “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.”
Members of the public with information are asked to contact Lincolnshire police via 101, quoting incident 469 of 23 August, or by emailing force.control@lincs.police.uk referencing the above details.
