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05/10/2009
Teens Die In Glasgow Bridge Plunge
More details have emerged of a tragic double drowning in Scotland.
The two women who jumped to their deaths from a Glasgow bridge reportedly held hands as they fell from the Erskine bridge.
The pair plunged more than 100ft from the Erskine Bridge shortly before 9pm last night.
Scotland's Daily Record newspaper is reporting that the pair were teenage girls who were seen holding hands as they leapt.
They were pulled from the River Clyde near the bridge after a search involving police, fire and rescue services, a Coastguard helicopter and the Ministry of Defence.
The Erskine Bridge connects Renfrewshire and West Dunbartonshire and is a notorious suicide spot.
A Coastguard source told the Record: "The information that we have is that it was two teenagers and that they held hands as they jumped from the bridge."
Their bodies were picked up by an RAF helicopter and taken to the Southern General Hospital in Glasgow.
A police spokesman said: "Between 8.50pm and 10.30pm the bodies of two females were recovered from the River Clyde near to the Erskine Bridge.
"Inquiries are continuing to establish the identities of the females.
"We would ask anyone who was in the area at the time and may have witnessed the incident to call us."
(BMcC/KMcA)
The two women who jumped to their deaths from a Glasgow bridge reportedly held hands as they fell from the Erskine bridge.
The pair plunged more than 100ft from the Erskine Bridge shortly before 9pm last night.
Scotland's Daily Record newspaper is reporting that the pair were teenage girls who were seen holding hands as they leapt.
They were pulled from the River Clyde near the bridge after a search involving police, fire and rescue services, a Coastguard helicopter and the Ministry of Defence.
The Erskine Bridge connects Renfrewshire and West Dunbartonshire and is a notorious suicide spot.
A Coastguard source told the Record: "The information that we have is that it was two teenagers and that they held hands as they jumped from the bridge."
Their bodies were picked up by an RAF helicopter and taken to the Southern General Hospital in Glasgow.
A police spokesman said: "Between 8.50pm and 10.30pm the bodies of two females were recovered from the River Clyde near to the Erskine Bridge.
"Inquiries are continuing to establish the identities of the females.
"We would ask anyone who was in the area at the time and may have witnessed the incident to call us."
(BMcC/KMcA)
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