The boy and girl who died in the sea off Bournemouth beach drowned after a 'suggestion' that they got into difficulty by getting caught in a riptide, an inquest has hard.
The inquests into the deaths of Joe Abbess, 17, from Southampton, and Sunnah Khan, 12, from Buckinghamshire, were opened on Monday. The pair had been rescued from the sea during the incident last Wednesday but both died in hospital.
In a hearing to open the inquest proceedings at Bournemouth Town Hall, Dorset coroner’s officer Nicola Muller said that post mortem examinations carried out showed the cause of their deaths was drowning.
