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Girl dies despite Cullercoats North Sea rescue | Girl dies despite Cullercoats North Sea rescue |
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A 15-year-old girl has died despite being rescued after after she was swept into the sea in North Tyneside. | |
She was with a group of teenagers on the north pier at Cullercoats Bay. | |
A RNLI lifeboat, the police and a Coastguard search-and-rescue helicopter were called to Cullercoats Bay at about 20:00 GMT on Saturday. | |
The teenager died at Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital in Cramlington, Northumberland. She had suffered a cardiac arrest. | |
In a statement issued before she died, Northumbria Police said she had been rescued from the side of the bay by a member of the public. | |
Another 15-year old girl, and a boy and girl both aged 14, were taken to hospital as a precaution but were uninjured, police said. |