Death blast inquiry
DETECTIVES investigating a house explosion which killed a woman were waiting to question a 26-year-old man under arrest in hospital and were treating the matter as a murder inquiry. Joanne Lesley Whittaker, 28, was seen running from the terraced house in Todmorden, West Yorkshire, with her clothes ablaze following the blast on Tuesday night.
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