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Woman found dead at Melksham home ‘after lighting barbecue indoors’

byDaniel Jae Webb
17 July 2023 | 4.57pm
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A woman was found dead at her home after ‘after a lighting barbecue indoors’.

Emergency services were called to Granville Road, Melksham, at around 10am on Sunday (16 July).

A woman, aged in her 50s, was found unresponsive and paramedics pronounced her dead at scene.

At the height of the incident, locals saw police cars, an ambulance a fire officer in attendance.

Wiltshire Police confirmed that that death is “not being treated as suspicious”.

Dorset and Wiltshire Fire and Rescue Service said it sent a fire officer “in support of a police incident”.

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