Andy Burnham warns of dangers of open-water swimming after ‘terrible family tragedy’ in Sussex

A mother, father and their teenage daughter died after getting into difficulty in water off Shoreham-by-Sea, and a younger girl remains in hospital Andy Burnham has warned of the dangers of open-water swimming as he called the deaths of a mother, father and their teenage daughter who got into difficulty in water off Sussex “a terrible family tragedy”. The prime minister expressed his sympathies to their loved ones as a young girl from the same family remained in a critical condition in hospital. There was a huge emergency service response to the incident in Shoreham-by-Sea on Tuesday afternoon, when police were told four people had got into difficulty in the water. Sussex police said it believed all four entered the water to swim. Ch Supt James Collis of Sussex police confirmed that a man, a woman and a teenage girl had died at the scene.

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