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| Missing four-year-old boy: search continues off Somerset coast | Missing four-year-old boy: search continues off Somerset coast |
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| Rescue teams are looking for a four-year-old boy who fell into the sea off the Somerset coast. | Rescue teams are looking for a four-year-old boy who fell into the sea off the Somerset coast. |
| Emergency services were called shortly after 6pm on Sunday evening after the child, named by police as Dylan Cecil from Kettering, vanished into the water near a jetty at Burnham-on-Sea. As his parents desperately tried to find him, a member of the public called for help. | Emergency services were called shortly after 6pm on Sunday evening after the child, named by police as Dylan Cecil from Kettering, vanished into the water near a jetty at Burnham-on-Sea. As his parents desperately tried to find him, a member of the public called for help. |
| An air and sea search involving coastguard rescue teams, lifeboats and an RAF helicopter was scaled back at dusk but continued overnight. It resumed at full strength at 5am with rescue teams from Clivedon, Watchet and Portishead, along with RNLI lifeboats from Burnham-on-Sea. | An air and sea search involving coastguard rescue teams, lifeboats and an RAF helicopter was scaled back at dusk but continued overnight. It resumed at full strength at 5am with rescue teams from Clivedon, Watchet and Portishead, along with RNLI lifeboats from Burnham-on-Sea. |
| The Maritime and Coastguard Agency said reports that rescuers were looking for a body were untrue but hope was fading for a successful conclusion to the search. | The Maritime and Coastguard Agency said reports that rescuers were looking for a body were untrue but hope was fading for a successful conclusion to the search. |
| "The parents of the child have been treated on scene after they went in after the boy and required medical treatment for water ingestion," the coastguard said. "A member of the public dialled 999 at 6.04pm to inform Swansea coastguard that they had seen two adults go in the water to attempt to rescue a small child and that they needed medical assistance." | "The parents of the child have been treated on scene after they went in after the boy and required medical treatment for water ingestion," the coastguard said. "A member of the public dialled 999 at 6.04pm to inform Swansea coastguard that they had seen two adults go in the water to attempt to rescue a small child and that they needed medical assistance." |
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