28/10/2015

Nine-Year-Old Boy Dies After Being Pulled From The Sea

The death of a nine-year-old boy in Kent is not being treated as suspicious after he is believed to have fallen into the sea.

It is understood that the child was pulled from the sea by a member of the public at Dymchurch on Tuesday afternoon.

Paramedics treated the boy at the scene before he was transferred to William Harvey Hopsital shortly after 13:00.

He died at the hospital overnight.

Kent Police are investigating the circumstances of the boys death, but have said that they are not treating it as suspicious.

(MH/CD)

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