Horror as young child dies after being airlifted to hospital from house as cops swarm street
Cops swarmed a residential street near Stoke-on-Trent on Sunday afternoon after the alarm was raised.
Staffordshire Police have confirmed the unidentified child was pronounced dead by doctors shortly after arriving at the Royal Stoke University Hospital.
An air ambulance landed on playing fields off Church Road, Biddulph, with multiple police cars sent to the scene in Woodland Street.
A Staffordshire Police spokesman said: "We were called at 2.50pm on Sunday to a property in Biddulph.
"A child was taken to hospital by air ambulance. Sadly, the child was pronounced dead by doctors a short time later.
"The child's next of kin are aware and are being supported by specialist officers at this difficult time."
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