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| Ballycastle missing boy found cliff dies | Ballycastle missing boy found cliff dies |
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| A seven-year-old boy has died after being found at the bottom of cliffs in Ballycastle, County Antrim. | |
| The boy, whose name has not yet been released, was missing for at least an hour on Sunday evening. | The boy, whose name has not yet been released, was missing for at least an hour on Sunday evening. |
| The child is believed to have been playing with friends near a holiday park when he fell from the cliffs. | |
| The search for him on Sunday evening involved the RNLI, Coastguard and a Royal Navy helicopter. | The search for him on Sunday evening involved the RNLI, Coastguard and a Royal Navy helicopter. |
| He was taken to the Causeway Hospital by helicopter, but is understood to have died. | He was taken to the Causeway Hospital by helicopter, but is understood to have died. |
| Dawn Petrie of Belfast Coastguard said: "About twenty past seven last night we were alerted by both the police and the ambulance service that a child was missing in the vicinity of Silver Cliffs caravan park in Ballycastle and having possibly fallen off the cliff. | |
| "We had a large multi-agency response initiated with specialist cliff-trained coastguard rescue teams from Ballycastle and Coleraine, lifeboats from Portrush and Red Bay a Royal Navy rescue helicopter, police and ambulance personnel. | |
| "The area was thoroughly covered by our rescue teams and it was the Royal Navy rescue helicopter from the air who spotted the child at the bottom of the cliff. | |
| "They initiated their winch procedures, put their winchman down at the scene, lifted the child into the helicopter and transported him to the Causeway Hospital in Coleraine." |