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Boy, 7, found at foot of Ballycastle cliffs dies | Boy, 7, found at foot of Ballycastle cliffs dies |
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The seven-year-old boy who died after being found at the bottom of cliffs in Ballycastle, County Antrim, was Logan Crawford, who was from the town. | |
Logan was missing for at least an hour on Sunday evening. | |
He is believed to have been playing with friends near a holiday park when he fell from the cliffs. | |
The search for him involved the RNLI, Coastguard and a Royal Navy helicopter. He was taken to the Causeway Hospital by helicopter, but 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. | 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. | "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. | "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." | "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." |