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Man dies following rescue operation

Man dies following rescue operation

A 36-year-old man, who was rescued from rocks on the County Antrim coast, has died in hospital.

The rescue operation was launched at just after 9 o’clock on Monday morning (April 19) after police received reports that a person had been spotted at the water's edge at Whitehead.

Police and Coastguards spotted the man close to the mouth of cave below Blackhead Lighthouse.

A Royal Navy helicopter airlifted the injured man to Antrim Area Hospital.

Police say a postmortem examination will now been carried out to establish the cause of death.

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