{"id":582218,"date":"2026-05-13T19:03:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T19:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/582218\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T19:03:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T19:03:11","slug":"brighton-three-women-die-in-tragic-incident-off-coast-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/582218\/","title":{"rendered":"Brighton: Three women die in &#8216;tragic incident&#8217; off coast, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What emergency services have said after three women die off Brighton coastpublished at 15:26 BST<\/p>\n<p>15:26 BST<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Two police officers seen beside a cordon on a pier, with a black waste bin visible alongside a teal railing.\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/808def87-236f-4d07-9b3e-788101836e65.jpg.webp\"  width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, Getty Images<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">South East Ambulance Service <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Shortly after 05:45 BST on Wednesday, the ambulance service said it was called to reports of &#8220;concern for the welfare of three women in the sea off Brighton&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ambulance crews and critical care paramedics attended and recovered three women from the water, but &#8220;despite the best efforts of all those involved, they were declared deceased at the scene,&#8221; a spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sussex Police<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ch Supt Adam Hays of Sussex Police told a press conference earlier today that the force is in the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/live\/cwyg508gg28t?post=asset%3Abb242f08-925d-4b2f-ade5-dfabd20df614#post\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> very early stages of enquiries<\/a> into this &#8220;tragic incident&#8221;, with the priority being to identify all three women and contact their next of kin.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He added that police are working hard with their partners to understand exactly what has happened, including reviewing CCTV footage from the surrounding area. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The beach will remain closed east of Volk&#8217;s Railway Black Rock car park for the rest of the afternoon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">HM Coastguard<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A number of coastguard rescue teams from across Sussex were deployed to the area earlier today, while three RNLI lifeboats also attended.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The coastguard has completed an extensive search of the water and they are not searching for anybody else at this stage, according to Ch Supt Adam Hays.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What emergency services have said after three women die off Brighton coastpublished at 15:26 BST 15:26 BST Image&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":582219,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-582218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=582218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582218\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/582219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=582218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=582218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=582218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}