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Coastal search for missing child Missing girl air search suspended
(about 1 hour later)
Coastguards are searching the sea off Clacton in Essex for an 11-year-old girl who has gone missing after falling out of a dinghy. The air search for a 10-year-old girl who disappeared off the Essex coast has been suspended until Monday morning.
The girl had been playing with a friend several metres from the beach when the vessel capsized. The girl from Buckinghamshire had been playing with a friend several metres from a beach in Clacton when they got into trouble at 1600 BST.
An onlooker pulled one of the girls out of the water and take her ashore but could not find the other child. An onlooker pulled one of the girls ashore but could not find the other.
Two helicopters, a coastguard rescue team and an inshore lifeboat have been launched to search the area. The man and rescued child were taken to hospital and treated for seawater intake. The man was later released while the girl remains in hospital.
Rescue workers said they remained "hopeful" they would find the girl. The missing girl was in Clacton on a day trip from Buckinghamshire with her friend and her friend's parents.
Aimee Rampton, from Thames Coastguard, said: "The tide is currently flooding locally and our search is concentrating on the east side of the pier back to Martello Bay and from the Palace breakwater to the lifeboat station. Police said the missing child's mother had been informed of the incident and was travelling to meet search teams.
"Rescue workers in drysuits also began to search the shallows from the breakwater in the tide direction. " Work 'continuing'
The girl who was rescued and the man who found her were both taken to hospital. Two helicopters, a coastguard rescue team and an inshore lifeboat had been launched to search the area after the incident opposite Trafalgar Road, off Marine Parade West.
An RAF rescue helicopter, from Wattisham, Suffolk, and a police helicopter were scrambled to scour the coastal waters.
Rescue workers in drysuits also searched the shallow water.
Police said the air search was called off on Sunday evening when light conditions became too poor.
But a spokesman for Essex Police said officers and coastguard staff would continue to work throughout the night.