A 17-year-old died in the Outer Banks after a sand dune collapsed on top of him : NPR

A 17-year-old died Saturday after a sand dune collapsed on high of him within the Outer Banks in North Carolina, the Nationwide Park Service mentioned.

{The teenager}, a male from Chesapeake, Virginia, was on the Cape Hatteras Nationwide Seashore in Frisco, North Carolina. At about 2 p.m., regulation enforcement responded to a 911 name after the teenager’s household and mates had been on the lookout for him.

He was present in a gap a couple of tenth of a mile east from an off-road ramp, buried beneath a number of toes of sand. The dune collapsed into the outlet, which had been “dug in a back-dune space behind the first dune and never seen from the beachfront,” the NPS mentioned.

A number of authorities, together with park rangers, Dare County Emergency Medical Providers and Hatteras Island Ocean Rescue employees helped transfer {the teenager} from the outlet and tried CPR, however weren’t profitable.

The incident is being investigated.

“Cape Hatteras Nationwide Seashore affords our condolences to his household and mates,” mentioned David Hallac, the superintendent of the Nationwide Parks of Japanese North Carolina. “We urge guests to not dig deep holes on the seaside as a result of hazard they current to beachgoers and emergency response employees.”