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| Girl, six, dies after getting into difficulty in sea off Margate | Girl, six, dies after getting into difficulty in sea off Margate |
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| A six-year-old girl has died after getting into difficulty in the sea off Margate harbour. | A six-year-old girl has died after getting into difficulty in the sea off Margate harbour. |
| The girl, from Erith, south-east London, was rescued by the South East Coast ambulance service and the RNLI lifeboat service on Saturday afternoon. | The girl, from Erith, south-east London, was rescued by the South East Coast ambulance service and the RNLI lifeboat service on Saturday afternoon. |
| A spokeswoman for the ambulance service said the girl was taken in a serious condition to the Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother hospital, where she died. | A spokeswoman for the ambulance service said the girl was taken in a serious condition to the Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother hospital, where she died. |
| Kent police said the girl’s next of kin had been informed and there were no suspicious circumstances surrounding her death. | Kent police said the girl’s next of kin had been informed and there were no suspicious circumstances surrounding her death. |
| One local man said the beach was “heaving” with tourists on what he described as a warm but windy day. He said he saw the emergency services “swarm” the harbour in their effort to rescue the girl. | One local man said the beach was “heaving” with tourists on what he described as a warm but windy day. He said he saw the emergency services “swarm” the harbour in their effort to rescue the girl. |
| The father-of-three, who did not want to give his name, said the incident was very upsetting. | The father-of-three, who did not want to give his name, said the incident was very upsetting. |
| There have been a number of deaths in recent days after people got into difficulty in water. | There have been a number of deaths in recent days after people got into difficulty in water. |
| The body of a 15-year-old teenager, provisionally named as Ben Quartermaine, was found near Clacton Pier in Essex after a search that began on Thursday. | The body of a 15-year-old teenager, provisionally named as Ben Quartermaine, was found near Clacton Pier in Essex after a search that began on Thursday. |
| In Bedfordshire, the body of a man in his late 20s was recovered from the Great Ouse river after reports someone had got into difficulty there on Friday afternoon. | In Bedfordshire, the body of a man in his late 20s was recovered from the Great Ouse river after reports someone had got into difficulty there on Friday afternoon. |
| Another man’s body was recovered from the Jubilee river in Slough on Thursday, Thames Valley police said, and police searching for a 17-year-old boy who disappeared in a quarry lake in Warwickshire also found a body on Friday. | Another man’s body was recovered from the Jubilee river in Slough on Thursday, Thames Valley police said, and police searching for a 17-year-old boy who disappeared in a quarry lake in Warwickshire also found a body on Friday. |
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