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Woman arrested following children's deaths in Sutton
Flowers at the scene in Collingwood Road, Sutton, south London, where two sets of twin boys, aged three and four, died in a devastating house fire on Thursday. A 27-year-old woman has been arrested and held on suspicion of child neglect

A WOMAN was arrested today on suspicion of child neglect after two sets of twins, aged three and four, died in a house fire in south London. 

The children, all related, were found by fire crews at a house in Sutton on Thursday evening. 

The London Fire Brigade said the young children were alone when they entered the building. 

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