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Police probe Westhill death of boy on New Year's Day

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Detectives are treating the death of 16-year-old boy in Aberdeenshire on New Year's Day as unexplained.

Police Scotland said the alarm was raised at a property on Keirhill Avenue in Westhill at about 10:00 on Sunday.

The teenager was taken to Aberdeen Royal Infirmary but pronounced dead a short time later.

A force spokesman said: "The death is being treated as unexplained, although there are no apparent suspicious circumstances.

"A report will be submitted to the procurator fiscal."