A teenager  Luke Bennett who has been named locally died after it is thought a group of children touched an overhead electrical line with a metal pole in Lancashire  The children were trying to use the metal pole to retrieve a ball in a pond.

Shortly after 6pm on Saturday, (March 6) emergency services were called to Runshaw Hall Lane in Euxton following a report of a child being seriously injured.

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