POLICE inquiries are continuing to be made following the sudden death last week of a teenager in a village near Wellington.

Emergency services were alerted to the incident at about 7.15 am on Tuesday, August 25, when they received a concern for welfare call.

South Western Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust despatched paramedics who attended an address in Burlescombe.

The crew found a young girl unresponsive inside the property, and police were then called to the scene.

A Devon and Cornwall Constabulary spokesperson said: “Sadly, the girl was pronounced deceased a short time later.

“Police inquiries are ongoing to establish the cause of her death, which is not currently being treated as suspicious.”

A file on the teenager’s death will be prepared for Devon Coroner Philip Spinney.