{"id":226072,"date":"2025-06-30T07:39:12","date_gmt":"2025-06-30T07:39:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/226072\/"},"modified":"2025-06-30T07:39:12","modified_gmt":"2025-06-30T07:39:12","slug":"tragedy-as-child-dies-after-being-airlifted-to-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/226072\/","title":{"rendered":"Tragedy as child dies after being airlifted to hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An air ambulance landed on playing fields<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/0_IMG_1372.jpg\" loading=\"eager\"  \/>An ambulance at the scene in Woodland Street, Biddulph<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">A child has died after being flown to hospital. An air ambulance landed on playing fields off Church Road, Biddulph, after the alarm was raised yesterday afternoon (June 29).<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Now police have confirmed a child was pronounced dead by doctors shortly after arriving at the Royal Stoke University Hospital. Multiple police cars were also sent to the scene in Woodland Street.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">The child&#8217;s age has not yet been confirmed but their next of kin have been informed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">A <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.stokesentinel.co.uk\/all-about\/staffordshire-police\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Staffordshire Police<\/a> spokesman said: &#8220;We were called at 2.50pm on Sunday to a property in Biddulph. A child was taken to hospital by air ambulance. Sadly, the child was pronounced dead by doctors a short time later. The child\u2019s next of kin are aware and are being supported by specialist officers at this difficult time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">StokeonTrentLive has contacted West Midlands Ambulance Service for a statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \"><a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.stokesentinel.co.uk\/newsletter-preference-centre\/\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Get daily headlines and breaking news emailed to you - it\u2019s FREELink opens in a new tab.\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Get daily headlines and breaking news emailed to you &#8211; it\u2019s FREE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An air ambulance landed on playing fieldsAn ambulance at the scene in Woodland Street, Biddulph A child has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":226073,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[89147,12,31076,16,15,8596],"class_list":{"0":"post-226072","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uk","8":"category-united-kingdom","9":"tag-biddulph","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-staffordshire-police","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-west-midlands-ambulance-service"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114771182550979401","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226072\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}