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Elderly woman dies in house fire

News imageGlenn Pringle/BBC The full house which looks to be semi-detached with another house on the left. The house on the right has a large hole in the roof with beams sticking up. On the ground floor there is a large conservatory. To the right there is a green sheet covering an entrance to the house. There is red and white and yellow and black tape around the garden in front of the house. There is a police car parked in the foreground and a group of five emergency service workers standing behind it. Two of them are in white hazmat suits.Glenn Pringle/BBC
The fire at a house on Sandwood Park in Guisborough killed a woman in her 80s

An elderly woman has died in a house fire.

The blaze broke out before 19:38 GMT on Monday at a house at Sandwood Park on the edge of Guisborough, Cleveland Fire Brigade said.

The body of the woman, who was aged in her 80s, was found inside.

A cordon around the property remained in place overnight and a joint investigation into the cause is being carried out by Cleveland Police and the fire service.

News imageGlenn Pringle/BBC A close-up of the top floor of the brick house. A rectangular window is completely smashed and is showing the blackened room inside. There is fire damage to the gutter above the window, parts look to have melted. The roof is also damaged is covered in solar panels, some have party come off the roof.Glenn Pringle/BBC
The blaze left major damage to the top floor and roof of the house

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