joeysky18
02-16-2009, 12:28 AM
This is bizarre. The father must be busy with his girlfriend.
A two-year-old girl died after she and her eight-month-old brother fell into the sea in their double pushchair in Folkestone, Kent, yesterday afternoon.
The children were with their father and a female friend. Both adults jumped into the water and managed to release the children from the pushchair, before dragging them to shore. Passers-by joined in the rescue after hearing screams, and an off-duty RNLI crew member resuscitated the older child, who was unconscious.
The two-year-old was then flown by air ambulance to the Royal London hospital, where she was pronounced dead last night, a Kent police spokesperson said.
The boy's condition was described as stable. He is expected to recover fully.
The children's father and the friend were said to be shocked but unhurt. The mother, who was not at the scene, was last night being comforted by police. A Dover Coastguard spokesperson said the four were walking on a pathway beneath the cliffs in an area know as the Warren. It is understood the group stopped on a slope and the pushchair rolled into the sea.
One of the first at the scene was lifeboat volunteer John Miell, who gave the girl mouth-to-mouth before the air ambulance arrived. An RNLI spokeswoman said Miell was traumatised by the event and too upset to talk last night.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/feb/16/3
A two-year-old girl died after she and her eight-month-old brother fell into the sea in their double pushchair in Folkestone, Kent, yesterday afternoon.
The children were with their father and a female friend. Both adults jumped into the water and managed to release the children from the pushchair, before dragging them to shore. Passers-by joined in the rescue after hearing screams, and an off-duty RNLI crew member resuscitated the older child, who was unconscious.
The two-year-old was then flown by air ambulance to the Royal London hospital, where she was pronounced dead last night, a Kent police spokesperson said.
The boy's condition was described as stable. He is expected to recover fully.
The children's father and the friend were said to be shocked but unhurt. The mother, who was not at the scene, was last night being comforted by police. A Dover Coastguard spokesperson said the four were walking on a pathway beneath the cliffs in an area know as the Warren. It is understood the group stopped on a slope and the pushchair rolled into the sea.
One of the first at the scene was lifeboat volunteer John Miell, who gave the girl mouth-to-mouth before the air ambulance arrived. An RNLI spokeswoman said Miell was traumatised by the event and too upset to talk last night.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/feb/16/3