It wasn’t particularly windy down there, it was just a hot, sunny beach day.
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Friends of Nitharsan Ravi posted tributes to him on Facebook as news of the friends’ deaths began to spread.
He said: “We are family friends”.
Rev Canon David Frost from the Parish Church of St Mary which is by the beach told Premier how the community is feeling.
“We saw them take up a blanket and then after that we saw them taken in a body bag”.
Mr Bosco described Mr Ravi as a “fun, bubbly guy”.
“We go on a pilgrimage to Walsingham for a Tamil festival every year”.
“We would like to send our thoughts to all those affected by such a awful series of events – both loved ones of the victims and those who helped in the operation as a whole”. He is a social guy.
“Everyone is in shock”.
In tribute to Mr Sri, Ranu Kumar wrote on Facebook: “Was one of the best genuine, one of my closest cousins in United Kingdom”.
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It is now believed that all five men fell into deep channels of water called sandbars.
He and four other men were pulled from the sea on Wednesday afternoon but died, despite efforts to save their lives.
A search is under way for a third person missing at the East Sussex beach.
“At this stage we are doing all we can to establish who the men are and to identify next of kin”, police Chief Superintendent Di Roskilly said in a statement.
The Camber Sands deaths came as police said that a two-year-old girl who was swept into the sea with her father had also died in hospital.
An online petition calling for the change has received more than 2,000 signatures.
“Having said that, the RNLI are providing a temporary service this weekend”.
“That should be paying for lifeguards that we urgently need”.
One eye-witness, Natalja Taylor, 30, who was on a day-trip with her husband, said police were driving up the beach with a loudhailer urging people to stay out of the sea.
Patrols are now in place at Camber Sands in the wake of the deaths.
Last month a Brazilian national, Gustavo Silva Da Cruz, 19, died in the water off Camber Sands and two others had to be rescued after being caught by a tide and strong winds.
A spokesperson for the coastguard said: “There was major reason for concern as this is a unsafe beach and lifeguards were not on yet on duty at the time the swimmer was missed. There was no waves and no wind”.
Three men, two women and a young boy have died in incidents spanning the length of the British isles, from Cornwall, Dorset, Essex and Jersey in the south to Aberdeen.
They say it’s one of the safest beaches in Britain but it’s a lie, Nitharsan and his friends are dead. The child was said to be about six years old. Even two, three weeks ago he was telling me not to wear certain types of dresses because he didn’t like it.
‘I am shocked but I didn’t want to directly interfere’.
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“He’s a very responsible boy”.
