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• Woman, 60, arrested on suspicion of manslaughter over Dorset care home deaths

  23-10-2024 23:13
  
  Police confirm ‘possible carbon monoxide poisoning’ is main line of inquiry after fatalities at care home in Swanage A 60-year-old woman has been arrested on suspicion of manslaughter by detectives investigating the deaths of three people at a care home in Dorset.Officers are still treating the deaths at the Gainsborough care home in Swanage as unexplained and have confirmed that “possible carbon monoxide poisoning” is the primary line of inquiry. Seven other residents we
  
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• Three people dead at care home in Dorset

  23-10-2024 14:33
  Home evacuated and four others taken to hospital, with early line of inquiry that residents may have been affected by carbon monoxideThree people have died at a care home in Dorset and four more have been taken to hospital.Dorset police said: “We received a report at 7.16am to three people who had been found deceased at a care home in Ulwell Road in Swanage.
  “Inquiries are being carried out to establish the full circumstances and we are continuing to liaise with our partner agencies.
  
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