A man, a woman and a teenage girl have died after a family got into difficulty in the sea while swimming off the Sussex coast.
A younger girl involved in the same incident is in a critical condition. The group was described as a family and had been swimming when they encountered trouble in the water.
The deaths of three people and the critical condition of a younger child make the incident a serious coastal tragedy. The available information does not give further details about the exact location on the Sussex coast, the time of the incident or the circumstances that led to the family getting into difficulty.
The latest known position is that three people have died and the younger girl remains critically ill.
