- More than 200 police officers are being deployed to Middlesbrough following a series of violent incidents that have left nine people dead.
- Two men have been arrested on suspicion of murder after a seven-year-old girl and her aunt died in a house fire in Grangetown.
- The violence in the area also includes a stabbing in Eston, a car rammed into a house, and a wrong-way crash on the A66 that killed seven people.
- Cleveland Police are investigating whether the recent wave of violent events is linked to wider organised crime.
- Middlesbrough and Thornaby East MP Andy McDonald condemned the violence as “terrorism” and called for urgent action to ensure public safety.
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