Pokémon Go rescue at sea

SIX TEENAGERS had a lucky escape after almost getting cut off by the sea while searching for Pokémon Go characters.

The boys had been hunting for the virtual creatures at the unsafe Old Pier on Birnbeck Island, Weston super Mare, Somerset.

Pokémon Go has attracted millions of users worldwide and involves finding the characters in real locations across the world.

Weston’s volunteer lifeboat crew were alerted by Milford Haven Coastguard shortly before 9pm on Thursday to rescue the group. Police, the fire brigade and coastguard teams gathered at the landward end of the pier in case the teenagers became trapped.

As the volunteer lifeboat crew launched, they spotted two boys wading back across the shingle bank to the shore with the tide rising rapidly to chest height.