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Bournemouth beach incident LIVE: Latest news as police investigate what happened after deaths of girl, 12, and boy, 17 in Dorset

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Follow all the latest news and developments as police continue to investigate the deaths of two children at Bournemouth beach.

  • Elizabeth Haigh

    Host commentator

14:11

Children did NOT jump off pier and were NOT hit by jet-ski, police say

In a press conference earlier today a spokesperson for Dorset Police confirmed that the two young people who sadly died in last night's incident did not jump off Bournemouth pier and were not hit by any watercraft.

A 17-year-old boy from Southampton and a 12-year-old girl from Buckinghamshire died after getting into difficulty in the water at the Dorset resort on Wednesday afternoon.