- Lifeboat and emergency services were called to the cliff around 6am today
- Rescue crews have recovered the bodies of a woman and child from base of cliff
- It is claimed the woman jumped from the cliff with her child, who had a disability
The bodies of a woman and a five-year-old child have been found at the foot of Beachy Head cliffs after they reportedly jumped to their deaths.
Emergency services recovered the body of the child – who is said to have had a disability – from under the East Sussex cliffs and have located the woman’s remains.
Lifeboats and a rescue helicopter were scrambled around 6am after reports of the woman a child going over the cliff-top.
A spokesman for Sussex police confirmed a woman and child had died and senior officers are on their way to begin their investigation.
Emergency services were called to Beachy Head today after a woman and child died
A coastguard helicopter at the scene this morning after the bodies were recovered
It comes just days after three bodies were recovered from the base of the famous cliffs near Eastbourne.
Emergency services were alerted last Wednesday, and with assistance from the Eastbourne RNLI inshore lifeboat recovered the body of a 58-year-old man from London.
Shortly after 5pm, while this was in progress, a second, badly decomposed body, believed to be that of a woman, was found nearby.
Then some 40 minutes later a third body, believed to be that of another man from London, was discovered some distance away.
Police said those three deaths were not being treated as suspicious and were not linked to one another.
More than 350,000 people visit the cliffs at Birling Gap and Seven Sisters each year.
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A lifeboat crew, pictured at the base of the cliff this morning, took part in the recovery
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