Toddler swept out to sea with her parents dies

A two-year-old girl who was swept into the sea during an incident in which her father was killed has died in hospital, police said.

Mckayla Bruynius died at Bristol Children’s Hospital on Tuesday night, having been caught by a large wave at Fistral beach in Newquay, Cornwall, last Friday.

Her father, Rudy Bruynius, also died in the incident, during a weekend in which a total of six people were killed in tragedies around the UK coast.