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| Bournemouth beach: Two people pulled from the sea | |
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| The beach has been cleared along with nearby Pier Approach, police said | The beach has been cleared along with nearby Pier Approach, police said |
| Two people have been pulled from the sea by the coastguard after getting into difficulty off Bournemouth beach. | |
| They have both been passed to the care of the ambulance service, HM Coastguard said. Their condition is unknown. | |
| The coastguard said it searched to make sure there were no other people missing and was "satisfied there are not". | |
| Emergency services, including a coastguard helicopter, were called to the scene near Bournemouth Pier at just after 16:30 BST. | |
| South West Ambulance Service, two air ambulances, Poole and Southbourne coastguard rescue teams, Mudeford RNLI lifeboat, Dorset Police were all sent in support. | |
| The beach was cleared along with nearby Pier Approach and the area was cordoned off, a police spokesman said. | |
| Eeman Qamar, from Southampton, was on the beach with her mother and three-month-old baby. | |
| She told the BBC that just after 16:00 lifeguards began to tell people to clear the beach, saying there had been a major incident. | |
| "After about 20 minutes, the first air ambulance arrived and landed right in the middle of the beach," she said. | |
| Ms Qamar continued: "The lifeguards started getting on jet skis and boats, searching the sea and about 20 minutes later the second air ambulance arrived and it took another hour-and-a-half for them to finish the whole search and rescue operation." | |
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