Man and woman arrested after baby boy dies in Blackpool

Emergency services pronounced the newborn dead on Boxing Day

Blackpool Victoria Hospital (Wikimedia Commons/Belovedfreak)

Police have arrested two people after a newborn baby boy died in Lancashire.

A man, 33, and a woman, 30, have been arrested on suspicion of manslaughter and child neglect, Lancashire Police said.

The pair have been bailed until June.

The emergency services were called to a property on Rydal Avenue in Blackpool at around midday on Boxing Day.

Rydal Avenue where emergency services found the baby boy on Boxing Day (Google Maps)

Paramedics then took the four-week old boy to Blackpool Victoria Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

Police are treating the death as “unexplained”. A coroner is due to carry out a post-mortem examination tomorrow

Additional reporting by PA