A five-year-old boy has died after falling from a harbour wall in Cornwall, Devon and Cornwall police have said.
Emergency services were called at a 11:45am on Saturday after reports of a child having fallen from the harbour wall in Padstow.
The child, who is a local boy, was taken to Treliske hospital by air ambulance and later transferred to Bristol hospital for treatment, where he died with his parents present.
Police are treating the death as an accident but are carrying out inquiries on behalf of the coroner.
Anyone with further information can contact the police quoting log number 435 24 June.
Devon and Cornwall police said: “Our thoughts are with family and loved ones of the child during this difficult time.”
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