Frinton-on-Sea: Police called as beachgoers left 'struggling to breathe'
Emergency services were called out to an Essex seafront after beachgoers said they were struggling to breathe.
The 45-year-old mental health worker from Derbyshire, who was in Essex with her twin daughters visiting her parents for the weekend, said she also had difficulty breathing as she lay on the sand drying off after a dip in the water.She said they all began to breathe more easily when they moved further away from the beach, but took the 10-year-old girls to a walk-in clinic to be checked over by medical staff.
She said:"My dad said he had been asked to get out of the water by a man on a boat. He asked why and the man said there had been a fuel spill. He said if anyone is having breathing difficulties they should probably call an ambulance."Hottest late August bank holiday weekend on record One person tweeted that there were"lots of people coughing heavily", while a mother said her son began coughing after swimming and had to be given his inhaler.
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