Girl, three, suffocates in beach pit

PARENTS were yesterday warned against letting their children dig large holes on beaches after a three-year-old girl was suffocated when a sandpit collapsed on her.

The youngster suffocated after becoming trapped in a pit dug on Towans Beach in Hayle, west Cornwall, as she played on the beach with her brother.

Rescuers took around half an hour to dig her out of the sand.