Sign up to the free MyBury newsletter to get the best stories direct to your inbox A house explosion which killed a woman as she was on a video call to her partner is likely to have been caused by a cracked gas main, an inquest has heard.
Hazel Wilcock, 61, died when her terraced home was destroyed by the blast in the village of Summerseat in Ramsbottom, Bury, just before 9.30pm on Wednesday February 17.
An inquest at Rochdale Coroner’s Court on Thursday heard Miss Wilcock, a bereavement counsellor for St Ann’s Hospice, had been on a Facetime call with her boyfriend Tony Dewes when he saw the screen go black at about 9.15pm. READ MORE: Man found unconscious at bus stop 'attacked by another man who then fled scene' Miss Wilcock’s brother
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