One of the casualties a 54-year-old man has died after he was pulled out from the water at Sea Palling near Great Yarmouth.
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An East of England Ambulance Service spokesman said: ‘It’s an ongoing incident, at the moment there are two patients’.
“A man in his 20s was resuscitated at the scene who was airlifted in a stable condition to the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital, for further treatment”.
According to reports, four swimmers got caught up in the riptide with up to 10 people in the water at trying to help those in trouble.
Three land ambulances, an air ambulance and a fire crew were at the scene.
Tim Ash, from the RNLI, said it was a “major incident”.
However, she added that it was as yet unclear how numerous group had been in initial difficulty and how many were people who had gone to the aid of others in trouble.
“Two of the lifeguards were on the shoreline and they ran down – when they got there the four casualties were all on land”.
Two people have been pulled unconscious from the sea and multiple casualties have been reported as swimmers got into distress off the East Anglia coast.
“Humber Coastguard requested the RNLI inshore lifeboats from Happisburgh and Coastguard rescue teams from Happisburgh, Mundesley and Winterton”.
“A 26-year-old male was not breathing and a 54-year-old male was not breathing”.
A lifeguard watches over beachgoers at Sea Palling beach.
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CPR was immediately given to both men – and two other casualties were later checked over by paramedics.
