A 10-year-old boy who was electrocuted at a hotel in Blackpool has died.

He was found unresponsive at Tiffany’s Hotel on the Promenade on Sunday evening and taken to hospital with injuries suggesting he had come into contact with a “high voltage” of electricity.

He died in hospital on Thursday.

Police said the family were at his bedside and their “thoughts are with them at this time”.

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