The woman was pushed from a sea wall at Hope Beach near Shanklin
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A holidaymaker is critically ill with head injuries after being pushed off a sea wall on the Isle of Wight.
The 61-year-old woman fell 12ft (3.6m) on to concrete steps when she was pushed from a wall at Hope Beach, near Sandown, on Saturday evening.
She was taken to the island's St Mary's Hospital then transferred by helicopter to the neurological unit at Southampton General Hospital.
A boy aged 17, from Shanklin, Isle of Wight, has been arrested.
Hampshire police have appealed for any witnesses who were on the beach between about 1700 BST and 1900 BST to contact them.
"This was an extremely serious incident which has left an innocent holidaymaker in a critical condition in hospital," said a Hampshire police spokesman.
The woman, who is from Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, is believed to have been on holiday alone.
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