The cause of death of a teenage boy and a girl who died on Bournemouth beach last week has been revealed.
An inquest into the tragedy has found that both the 17-year-old and 12-year-old died of drowning. The cause of death has been confirmed following "suggestion" they got caught in a riptide.
Both Joe Abbess, a 17-year-old from Southampton, and Sunnah Khan, a 12-year-old from Buckinghamshire, were rescued from the sea on May 31, but both died later in hospital.
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An inquest into both deaths was opened today amid concerns over a lack of clarity from police officers about the tragedy, the Mirror reports.
Conservative MP Tobias Ellwood told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: "We do need to understand, learn lessons from this, provide clarity early on - just so people can have an assurance of mind as to what roughly happened."
"But if the absence of any comprehensive statement becomes standard, I can see who, speaking on a wider picture and security level... those who wish us harm could leverage the void by misleading messaging."
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