Four rescued after Canadian canoe capsizes

Four people including a child have been rescued by a swimmer and a kayaker after a Canadian canoe capsized.

The alarm was raised at 12.34pm yesterday when the vessel tipped over in Carrick Bay off the Dumfries and Galloway Coast. A man swam out from the shore to rescue the child while a kayaker paddled out and towed two men to safety as they clung to the side of his kayak, coastguards said. The fourth person made their own way back to shore. Coastguard teams and the coastguard helicopter from Prestwick attended.