18-year-old dies in beach burial

Young man airlifted to hospital after hole he dug on beach near Perpignan collapsed around him

A YOUNG man has died after being buried alive on a beach near Perpignan.

The 18-year-old, from the Loiret, was on holiday with his cousins in Toreilles, in the Pyrénées-Orientales.

He had dug a large hole, about a metre deep, and entered it. The walls then suddenly collapsed.

Lifeguards tried to resuscitate him on the beach. The man was airlifted to hospital in Perpignan, where he died yesterday evening.