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Armed cops have raided more homes in Middlesbrough – as gangland violence ravages the tinderbox town in the wake of the A66 crash.

Once a booming 19th-century powerhouse at the centre of the UK’s steel, iron and shipbuilding industry, Middlesbrough was a proud example of British business success on the northeast coast.

Police today confirmed detectives are not linking a fatal house fire which killed a seven-year-old girl and her aunt to last weekend’s deadly A66 crash.

A Middlesbrough MP has condemned the violence gripping the town as ’terrorism’, with residents left ’trapped in their homes’ after nine people were killed and 19 arrests were made in less than a week.

A seven-year-old child and her aunt have been killed in Middlesbrough in a house fire believed to be linked to Saturday’s fatal A66 crash.