Three women who died after being pulled from the sea off the coast of Brighton were related and visiting from London, according to reports.<\/p>\n
The discovery was made near Brighton Marina after emergency services were called at around 5.45am yesterday (May 13) over concerns for the women\u2019s welfare.<\/p>\n
A major search and rescue operation was launched involving coastguard teams, RNLI lifeboats and two helicopters.<\/p>\n
The bodies of the three women were later recovered from the water near Madeira Drive.<\/p>\n
It is understood the women were aged between 20 and 30 years old.<\/p>\n
Police believe all three women have now been identified and their next of kin have been informed.<\/p>\n
Formal identification is still ongoing.<\/p>\n
Officers say there is currently no evidence to suggest criminality or that anyone else was involved, while an investigation into how the women entered the water continues.<\/p>\n
Coastguards believe the women may have got into difficulty after stepping off a shingle shelf which drops sharply into deep water.<\/p>\n
Rough sea conditions were also reported along the coast.<\/p>\n
According to the Daily Mail, a dental nurse living in Jamaica claimed on social media that the victims were her cousins.<\/p>\n
She reportedly wrote: \u201cMy mum just called me to tell me the bodies of the three women that were found in Brighton Beach are my cousins.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd I am in complete shock\u2026\u2026 all 3 of the girls at one time.\u201d<\/p>\n
The newspaper also reported that another relative confirmed the women, who are believed to have travelled from London, were related.<\/p>\n
Large emergency service cordons remained in place throughout Wednesday, with Black Rock car park and the nearby beach closed to the public.<\/p>\n
Chief Superintendent Adam Hays, of Sussex Police, said: \u201cThis is an utterly heartbreaking tragedy, and my thoughts are with the loved ones of these three young women after their devastating loss.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey will remain at the forefront of our minds as we search for the answers their families, and the wider public, desperately seek.\u201d<\/p>\n
He added that detectives are continuing to examine a \u201cnumber of hypotheses\u201d as enquiries continue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three women who died after being pulled from the sea off the coast of Brighton were related and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":36961,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[3244,18187,18186,1099,27,18188],"class_list":{"0":"post-36960","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-london","8":"tag-brighton","9":"tag-brighton-beach","10":"tag-brighton-marina","11":"tag-emergency-services","12":"tag-london","13":"tag-sussex-police"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@UnitedKingdom\/116577632559492630","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36960\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}