{"id":512421,"date":"2026-04-04T11:14:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T11:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/512421\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T11:14:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T11:14:09","slug":"boy-4-dies-as-police-and-paramedics-race-to-bolton-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/512421\/","title":{"rendered":"Boy, 4, dies as police and paramedics race to Bolton street"},"content":{"rendered":"

Police and paramedics raced to the Breightmet area of Bolton on Friday afternoon and the four-year-old boy was rushed to hospital where he tragically died a short time later<\/p>\n

09:09, 04 Apr 2026Updated 09:38, 04 Apr 2026<\/p>\n

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The boy was taken to hospital where he tragically died(Image: MEN)<\/p>\n

A four-year-old boy has tragically died after paramedics raced to a residential street in Bolton<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Emergency services were called to Lenham Gardens in the city’s Breightmet area at around 1.30pm on Friday. The boy suffered a “suspected medical episode”, a spokesperson for Greater Manchester<\/a> Police said, before he was rushed to hospital from the scene.<\/p>\n

Tragically, the youngster died a short time later in hospital. Officers are carrying out enquiries but said there are not believed to be any suspicious circumstances surrounding his death, reports Manchester Evening News<\/a>.<\/p>\n

A Greater Manchester Police spokesperson said: “At around 1.30pm yesterday, officers responded to reports of a four-year-old boy suffering from a suspected medical episode in the Breightmet area of Bolton.<\/p>\n

“Emergency services immediately responded and despite their best efforts, the child sadly died shortly after in hospital. There are not currently believed to be any suspicious circumstances and enquiries are currently taking place.”<\/p>\n

The Mirror<\/a> has contacted North West Ambulance Service for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police and paramedics raced to the Breightmet area of Bolton on Friday afternoon and the four-year-old boy was…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":512422,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[390,59,57,58,2847,50,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-512421","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-kingdom","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-gb","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-greatbritain","12":"tag-greater-manchester-police","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=512421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512421\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/512422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=512421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=512421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=512421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}