MYSTERY surrounds the death of a four-day-old baby girl from Nelson who died in hospital.

Sanah Hussain died at 5.20am on March 22 after going in to an irreversible shock at Burnley General Hospital.

A verdict of death from natural causes was recorded by Acting East Lancashire coroner, Richard Taylor, after a post mortem examination could not reveal what led to her death.

Dr Melanie Newbold, a consultant at Royal Manchester Children's Hospital, Pendlebury, carried out the examination. She said: "I am not entirely sure how she died which is quite a common finding in babies. I think the most likely causewas that she had an overwhelming infection. There was nothing to say that death was from anything other than natural causes."

Her mother Noreen Hussain lives in Bond Street, Nelson.