Two children killed in the Bournemouth beach tragedy were swept out to sea by a riptide, according to sources. Sunnah Khan, 12, and Joe Abbess, 17, drowned after being pulled under water.
They were reportedly playing on a sandbar before a riptide swept them out to sea, Birmingham Live reports.
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Sunnah's mother, Stephanie Williams, previously slammed police probing the deaths for their lack of clarity. She said: "It's just really difficult to accept. Somebody has potentially caused Sunnah to be taken away from us. The police have only told us what they said in a statement. The cause of death was drowning, there were no other injuries. We don't actually know how it came about."
Witness Trevor Pinto previously told MailOnline: "We were walking on the pier just after 4pm and heard an announcement from the lifeguards about a riptide. We could see the riptide about 200 metres away. It was a different colour than the rest of the sea. It was on the east side of the pier and was coming towards the shore.
"After that we walked to the end of the pier to the Key West restaurant. I took a photograph of my son there at 4.10pm. We noticed a lifeguard on a jet ski looking for people under the pier and that is when we realised something was wrong. They pulled the first person from the water and started giving them CPR on the beach.
"This was about 60 metres away from where we were but there were more lifeguards looking underneath pier. Some other people started shouting that they saw a body. We saw that person was wearing a black T-shirt or something. That was about 20 or 30 metres away from the pier. They were also given CPR.
"People were taking videos and filming and after that they started pushing people away. The pier has two tiers to it and the only person I saw on the pier was a guy fishing. There were no jet skis."
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