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Lost girls rescued from mud flats

Two 13-year-old girls have been rescued from mud flats in Norfolk in an area known for dangerous tides, the coastguard has said.

The girls walked out on the mud flats at Snettisham on Sunday afternoon, but their grandfather lost sight of them so alerted Yarmouth Coastguard.

After a search in poor visibility the girls were rescued, unhurt.

"I do not believe that they realised how much danger they were actually in," Tony Garbutt, coastguard manager, said.

"This area is so notorious for patches of very soft mud and quickly rising tides and they were lucky to be located so quickly in such poor visibility and so far out."




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