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| An 11-year-old boy who died after falling 200ft (60m) while on a family walk on Snowdon has been named. | An 11-year-old boy who died after falling 200ft (60m) while on a family walk on Snowdon has been named. |
| Liam Costello, of Merseyside, was in a walking party with his father and another family when he fell down the Crib Goch part of the mountain. | |
| Liam suffered extensive head injuries and was pronouned dead at Gwynedd Hospital in Bangor on Friday. | Liam suffered extensive head injuries and was pronouned dead at Gwynedd Hospital in Bangor on Friday. |
| Bad weather and poor visibility had made it difficult for the helicopter to reach him on the mountain. | |
| Thirty members of Llanberis Mountain Rescue Team and a group from RAF Valley at Anglesey attended the scene. | |
| Mountain rescue chairman Gwyn Roberts said that low cloud had delayed the operation to airlift the youngster. |