Swiss boy dies in Spain sand tunnel collapse <!-- google_ad_section_end(name=story_headline) -->
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July 25, 2010 2:58AM
A 12-YEAR-old Swiss boy died after a tunnel he dug with his two brothers in sand dunes at a Spanish beach collapsed around him. <!-- google_ad_section_end(name=story_introduction) --> <!-- // .story-intro --> <!-- google_ad_section_start(name=story_body, weight=high) --> Paramedics tried but failed to resuscitate the boy after he was pulled out of the sand at the beach at Castello d'Empuries on Friday afternoon, Mayor Salvi Guell told Catalunya Radio.
"Sometimes children do not notice the limit between fun and risk, and it is adults who should be on the lookout," he said. The boy, whose identity was not revealed, was on holiday with his family at the beach, 125 kilometres north of Barcelona, near the border with France.
His two brothers, aged eight and 13, did not immediately notice that the tunnel collapsed and it was a lifeguard on duty at the beach who first sounded the alarm, police said. The Castello d'Empuries beach, popular with windsurfers, has huge dunes which are created by strong winds that regularly blow in the area.