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| Gairloch canoe capsize: Brothers named by police | Gairloch canoe capsize: Brothers named by police |
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| Two children who died after a canoe capsized on a west Highland sea loch, and their father who is still missing, have been named by police. | |
| Two-year-old Jamie Beaton and his five-year-old brother Ewen were among six people in the boat when it overturned off Gairloch on Sunday afternoon. | Two-year-old Jamie Beaton and his five-year-old brother Ewen were among six people in the boat when it overturned off Gairloch on Sunday afternoon. |
| Their father Ewen Beaton remains missing and the coastguard said hopes of finding him alive had faded. | |
| A Beaton family statement said they were "utterly devastated". | A Beaton family statement said they were "utterly devastated". |
| It said: "We appreciate all that has and is being done by emergency services to find their adoring father, Ewen." | |
| Those on board the Canadian canoe - a narrow boat designed to carry numerous passengers - were members of two families who had been on a day trip from their homes in Inverness-shire. | |
| A second father and his eight-year-old daughter swam to shore. Her five-year-old sister is in a serious condition after being pulled from the water by rescuers. | |
| It is understood the eight-year-old girl reached the shore shortly before her father, aged 36, at about 16:15, and managed to alert the coastguard. | |
| Her five-year-old sister was initially taken to Broadford Hospital on Skye before later being transferred by helicopter to the Royal Hospital for Sick Children in Glasgow. Her parents are with her. | |
| Ewen and Jamie Beaton were airlifted to Raigmore Hospital in Inverness, but Northern Constabulary later confirmed they had both died. | |
| The search resumed for their father resumed on Monday morning but the coastguard said it was now being treated as a recovery - rather than a rescue - mission. | |
| Ewen Beaton was a Primary 1 pupil at the 61-pupil Teanassie Primary School, near Beauly. | |
| Acting head teacher Alison Donald said: "As we are a small community, the school, parents and the wider community will feel this loss deeply." | |
| James Martin, chairman of the school's parent council, said: "The Beatons are a well known and highly-respected family and the impact of their loss will be felt throughout the community." | |
| The coastguard believes the canoe capsized several hundred metres from the shoreline, between a small island and the beach. | |
| James Cameron, 34, who co-runs the Big Sands caravan and camping site, said he and a friend managed to locate the five-year-old girl after becoming involved in the rescue operation on Sunday. | |
| He said: "I happened to be out in the boat yesterday when I heard there was an incident. We were just coming in and heard there was a girl missing, so we went out and actually found her. | |
| "We found her face down, she was unconscious. She had her buoyancy aid on, it was keeping her afloat but it wasn't keeping her head out the water. | |
| "We took her in and we did try our best to resuscitate her. The coastguard helicopter then picked her up off the boat and took her away to Broadford Hospital." | |
| Mr Cameron said the incident has left the local community stunned. "Everyone is devastated," he added. | |
| Jamie Ralston of Stornoway Coastguard, who helped coordinate the rescue operation, confirmed that weather conditions had been good at the time of the incident. | |
| He added: "It was a nice, clear, sunny day with a little offshore breeze. | |
| "The family were out in a Canadian canoe, six of them - two adults and four kids - and unfortunately it has capsized." |