Child, 7, killed in Newcastle house explosion was a ‘beautiful, funny and caring little boy’
A seven-year-old boy who died in an explosion in a residential street in Newcastle has been named locally, as his aunt described him as a “beautiful, funny and caring little boy”. Northumbria Police confirmed that a young child had died at the scene of the horrific blast in the Benwell area of the city in the early hours of Wednesday morning.