Emergency services are at the scene

Emergency services are at the scene

Three people have been found dead and four have been taken to hospital after an incident at a care home in the UK, police said.

Police say potential carbon monoxide poisoning is their "primary line of inquiry".

Dorset police have said that there there is ‘nothing to indicate any risk to the wider public’ in the south-west England town.

A councillor claimed there was a 'suspicion' that the incident could be 'attributed to carbon monoxide'

Emergency services are at the scene at a care home in Ulwell Road, Swanage.

Emergency services are at the scene with remaining residents having been evacuated to a safe location

Dorset Police said the deaths are currently being treated as unexplained

Crews raced to the care home after receiving the alarm at 5.20am on Wednesday.

Three people have died and four others have been taken to hospital following a suspected carbon monoxide leak at a Dorset care home.

Wes Streeting has told LBC that his "heart goes out" to those affected after three people died from a suspected gas leak at a Dorset care home.

The 'major incident' was declared at Gainsborough Care Home in Swanage after Dorset Police received a report at 7.16am of three dead.

The incident left three dead and seven others in hospital