Schoolboy, 13, dies after coastguards pulled him from the sea off the coast of North Wales

Schoolboy, 13, dies after coastguards pulled him from the sea off the coast of North Wales

  • The teenager was airlifted to Bangor Hospital after he was rescued at 9.20pm
  • A member of the public had called 999 at 8.55pm to report a person in the water 
  • Police have said that they are not treating the boy’s death as suspicious  

A 13-year-old boy has died after being pulled 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 last night.

He was airlifted to Bangor Hospital but later died.

Police said the teenager was recovered by coastguards at Pigeon’s Cove, on the Great Orme in Llandudno, at about 9.20pm last night before being airlifted to Bangor Hospital where he died

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

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

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

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

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