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Adriana Navarro

Teenager Dies In Sand Dune Collapse In Outer Banks

Volunteers with Better Beaches OBX place recycled Christmas trees on dunes to renourish the beach on January 20, 2023, in Kitty Hawk, Outer Banks, North Carolina. Ryan Conyers died while vacationing in the Outer Banks with his family. ALLISON JOYCE/ACCUWEATHER

An 18-year-old has died after a sand dune collapsed on top of him in the Outer Banks in North Carolina, according to National Park Service officials.

The young adult from Chesapeake, Virginia, had reportedly become trapped in a hole in a back-dune area of the Cape Hatteras National Seashore in Frisco, North Carolina, Saturday. The area is behind the primary dune and is not visible from the beachfront.

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