Coastal accidents kill six as storms hit

Three men, two women and a young child have died in separate incidents off the British coast amid strong winds and stormy conditions.

A man who got into trouble at Sandbanks beach in Poole, Dorset, on Saturday, is the latest to be reported dead.

The victim, who was seen having difficulties in the rip current, was recovered from the water by lifeguards who performed CPR, Dorset Police said.

An air ambulance and paramedics attended, but the man, believed to be in his fifties, was pronounced dead at the scene.

He is believed to have had a cardiac arrest, a spokeswoman for South Western Ambulance Service said.

Five others have died along British coastlines this weekend.

A mother and son, who have been named by police as Julie Walker, 37, and Lucas Walker, six, died in hospital after a rescue operation at Aberdeen beach on Saturday (see story above).

A woman, in her thirties, died in hospital after getting into difficulties while swimming with a man near Green Island in Jersey on Saturday at around 8.30pm.

The man was helped to safety by members of the public, while a lifeboat located the woman who had been swept along by the current, said RNLI St Helier. She was taken to hospital but later died, Jersey Police said.

Rudy Bruynius, who has been named online, was with wife Lisinda and their daughter McKayla when they were caught up by a large wave at Fistral Beach on the north-west coast of Cornwall on Saturday.

A surfer in his sixties has also died after being rescued off the coast of West Mersea, Essex, at around midday on Saturday. He died in hospital in Colchester.