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Boy dies after dingy sea accident | |
(about 3 hours later) | |
A teenage boy has died after he and a friend got into trouble in a dingy off the County Londonderry coast. | |
The 15-year-old was airlifted to hospital, but died later. | |
He was dragged from the water and attempts were made to resuscitate him. His friend managed to swim to safety after their dingy capsized. | |
Brett Cunningham of the Coastguard said two helicopters and lifeboats had been involved in the search off Castlerock. | |
"The PSNI helicopter located the boy in the water and guided the Irish Coastguard and Greencastle boats over to pick him up," he said. | |
"He was then lifted from the Coastguard boat into the Irish Coastguard helicopter." | |
The incident happened at about 1500 BST on Tuesday. |