POLICE are today investigating the “unexplained” death of a teenage girl from west Suffolk who is believed to have suffered a self-inflicted cardiac arrest.

POLICE are investigating the “unexplained” death of a teenage girl found hanged in a house in west Suffolk.

The emergency services were called to Bury Road, Brandon, at around 11pm on Tuesday night after the alarm was raised about the girl, who was both unconscious and not breathing.

The first to arrive was the East of England Ambulance Service, which dispatched a first responder to the scene followed by two separate ambulance crews.

But despite desperate attempts to resuscitate the teenager, she was pronounced dead later in hospital.

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