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27/09/2004
Dead man named following diving accident
A man who died following a diving incident in Co Antrim has been named.
Adam Pollock, 31, from Ballymena Road in Ballymoney, was with three others when the incident occurred at Dunluce Castle, close to Portrush, on Saturday.
The four individuals had been 'tombstoning', diving off rocks and cliff faces into the sea, when a heavy swell carried them away.
Members of the coastguard in Belfast and Ballycastle and the Royal Navy were immediately dispatched when a 14-year-old girl, who was among the group of four, managed to alert the emergency services.
The three men were eventually rescued by a Portrush Lifeboat and taken to the Causeway hospital in Coleraine where they were treated for shock and hypothermia. Mr Pollock later died.
Meanwhile, the body of a man who was pulled out of a river in Co Tyrone has been identified.
Lithuanian Zigmas Vilinas, 38, had been living in Coalisland where his body was discovered on Sunday.
Police are still investigating the circumstances of his death but do not suspect a crime.
(MB/GMCG)
Adam Pollock, 31, from Ballymena Road in Ballymoney, was with three others when the incident occurred at Dunluce Castle, close to Portrush, on Saturday.
The four individuals had been 'tombstoning', diving off rocks and cliff faces into the sea, when a heavy swell carried them away.
Members of the coastguard in Belfast and Ballycastle and the Royal Navy were immediately dispatched when a 14-year-old girl, who was among the group of four, managed to alert the emergency services.
The three men were eventually rescued by a Portrush Lifeboat and taken to the Causeway hospital in Coleraine where they were treated for shock and hypothermia. Mr Pollock later died.
Meanwhile, the body of a man who was pulled out of a river in Co Tyrone has been identified.
Lithuanian Zigmas Vilinas, 38, had been living in Coalisland where his body was discovered on Sunday.
Police are still investigating the circumstances of his death but do not suspect a crime.
(MB/GMCG)
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