US student dies at party on Shetland
AN American classical studies student has died at a bonfire beach party on Shetland that went wrong.
Nineteen-year-old Evan Dube from Plaistow, New Hampshire, died after going into icy water for a swim.
Northern Constabulary said the student of Bates College, Lewiston, Maine appeared to have collapsed after coming out the water at around 9pm on Saturday a t West Vo e beach, Sumburgh.
Police say there do not appear to be any suspicious circumstances surrounding the incident, describing it as a “sudden death”. A report is to be submitted to the proscurator-fiscal.
Evan had been with a g roup of fellow Bates College students at a beach barbecue when he decided to go for the swim.
After he collapsed, his friends attempted to resuscitate him and called emergency services. He was then airlifted to the Gilbert Bain Hospital in Lerwick but attempts to revive him were unsuccessful.
Bates College said: “Bates College has been shaken and deeply saddened to learn that first-year student Evan Dube died on Saturday night.”
Evan’s fellow students in Scotland are receiving grief counselling and will return to Boston on tomorrow.
The students were participating in the Shetland Islands Cl i mate and Settlement Project, an ongoing archaeological research project funded by the National Science Foundation