A seven-year-old boy, Musa Ahmed, dies in hospital a week after an incident at West Mersea Beach in Essex that left a teenage cousin and her mother dead. Police and multiple outlets report the boy was pulled from the water after getting into difficulty in the sea on 22 July, following which he was taken to hospital in London. He is said to have been treated for life-threatening injuries, including intensive care, after the incident. According to reports, his teenage cousin and her mother also lost their lives in the same event as family members attempted to help him. Several sources state the deaths were part of a wider emergency in which multiple members of the family got into difficulty off the Essex coast. In the days after the incident, he remained in hospital and later died from injuries sustained during the event, as confirmed by police. His death is reported as the third in connection with the beach incident, following the deaths of his cousin and her mother. The exact circumstances of how the incident began are not detailed in the sources provided.