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Thorpeness cliff collapse: Man dies | |
(35 minutes later) | |
A man has died after part of a cliff collapsed on to a beach in Suffolk. | |
The emergency services were called to Thorpeness at about 13:25 GMT on Saturday after reports that a man was trapped. | |
A search operation was launched to try to find - and then free - the man, thought to be in his late-50s, but he died at the scene. | |
A spokeswoman for Suffolk Police said they were treating the man's death as "non-suspicious". | |
'Large-scale search' | |
Police, fire, ambulance and coastguard crews all took part in the operation. | |
The coastguard said it received multiple 999 calls from members of the public telling them a man was trapped. | |
Bev Allen, maritime operations controller for the UK Coastguard, said it had been a "large-scale search and rescue effort". | |
She added: "We ask people to please stay away from this particular area while the emergency services are at work." | |
It is not yet known where the man had been when the cliff collapsed. |