{"id":512699,"date":"2026-04-04T14:59:21","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T14:59:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/512699\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T14:59:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T14:59:21","slug":"boy-4-dies-after-suffering-suspected-medical-episode","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/512699\/","title":{"rendered":"Boy, 4, dies after suffering suspected medical episode"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  Greater Manchester Police (GMP) said officers were called to Breightmet at around 1.30pm on Friday (April 3) to reports of a young boy believed to be suffering a medical episode.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Emergency services rushed to Lenham Gardens and the boy was transferred to a hospital.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  However, police have confirmed that the child died shortly after arriving at hospital.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  GMP has added that there are not believed to be any suspicious circumstances, with enquiries ongoing.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  A spokesperson for GMP said: &#8220;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.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;Emergency services immediately responded and despite their best efforts, the child sadly died shortly after in hospital.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;There are not currently believed to be any suspicious circumstances and enquiries are currently taking place.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Greater Manchester Police (GMP) said officers were called to Breightmet at around 1.30pm on Friday (April 3) to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":512700,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-512699","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-kingdom","8":"tag-gb","9":"tag-great-britain","10":"tag-greatbritain","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512699","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=512699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512699\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/512700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=512699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=512699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=512699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}