Prayers for child killed by boat

Stuart WilsonStuart Wilson had been staying with his family at a caravan park near Cranfield beach

A six-year-old boy who was struck by a speedboat at Cranfield beach in County Down has died in hospital.

Stuart Wilson, from Rathfriland, was on a wave board being towed by a boat, when the collision happened at about 1700 BST on Bank Holiday Monday.

He suffered severe head injuries and was taken to Daisy Hill Hospital in Newry, before being transferred to the Royal Victoria Hospital in Belfast.

His family had been holidaying at a caravan park near the beach.

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