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Ellie Cullen & Tiffany Lo

Boy, 13, dies after being pulled from sea off North Wales coast

A 13-year-old boy has died after being rescued from the water off the coast of North Wales.

Police said the teenager was recovered by coastguards at Pigeon's Cove, on the Great Orme in Llandudno, at about 9.20pm on Saturday.

He was airlifted to hospital but later died.

North Wales Police said there were not thought to be any suspicious circumstances.

Onlooker 'Graham' posted a rescue video on Twitter showing the air ambulance en route to the hospital.

The clip also captured police cars rushing to the scene as he wrote: "Just saw an amazing winch rescue by the coastguard and the Llandudno life boat on the side of the great Orme."

A spokeswoman from HM Coastguard said a member of the public had called 999 at about 8.55pm to report a person in the water.

"Llandudno Coastguard Rescue Team, RNLI Llandudno inshore and all weather lifeboats, HM Coastguard search and rescue helicopter based at Caernarfon, North Wales Police and Welsh Ambulance Service were sent to the scene," she said.

The boy was found at Pigeon’s cliff in Great Orme, Llandudno (Cattan2011/Flickr)

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"The person was recovered from the water and was airlifted to Bangor hospital."

This is not the first time a fatal incident took place at the same spot.

Last August, a 17-year-old boy plunged to his death after falling from a 300ft cliff.

In May 2018, a man from Poland was angling just off Pigeon's Cove when he fell from the headland into the sea.

He was pronounced dead after the plunge.

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