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British children who drowned off Spanish coast named
Two siblings who drowned while on holiday in Spain have been named - with a fundraiser for their family reaching £40,000.
Ameiya and Ricardo Junior Parris, aged 13 and 11, died on Tuesday evening after getting into difficulty off Llarga beach in Salou, Catalonia. Their father Ricardo tried to rescue them, but he also got into difficulty and was unconscious when he was pulled from the water.
He was later released from hospital with a concussion. Ricardo Senior and his partner, Shanice Del-Brocco, 31, were staying at the Hotel Best Negresco right by the beach with their six children when tragedy struck.
The construction worker from Birmingham had taken their two oldest children for one final swim while Shanice had taken the younger ones back to the hotel. "They'd gone out.
They were being sensible. They're very good swimmers," the children's aunt, Kayla Del-Brocco, said.
"They knew it was late. However, they'd been doing this every day on holiday, so that day was no different.
They didn't go out far, but the current was just too strong and pulled them." A hotel worker saw the siblings struggling in the water and called for help. When Shanice returned to the beach, emergency services were already at the scene, with Junior, nicknamed Joby, taken away in a helicopter.
"It's breaking (Ricardo), if I'm honest, because he was in the water, and I know he said things to my sister like: 'I had him, I had Joby in my arms, and we got smacked up the rocks, and that's the last thing I remember,'" Shanice's sister said. Ricardo Senior suffered a "nasty concussion and some bumps and batters.
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