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Gateshead fire: fourteen children arrested after death of boy, 14

Layton Carr died in the blaze at Fairfield Industrial Park in Gateshead, with eleven boys and three girls arrested on suspicion of manslaughter

Fourteen children have been arrested over the death of a 14-year-old boy in a fire at an industrial unit in Gateshead.

The blaze broke out at Fairfield Industrial Park on Friday evening and was extinguished by the fire brigade, but the body of 14-year-old Layton Carr was later discovered, Northumbria police said. His family have been informed.

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