Dutch traveller dies after falling from his yacht during a raid

Posted on June 18, 2013 • Filed under: Tourist Dies, United Kingdom

Thecourier.co.uk reports that a man has died after a Border Force raid on a boat in the Isles of Scilly, police said. The man, believed to be a Dutch national in his early 60s, suffered serious injuries when he fell from the mast of a yacht, Devon and Cornwall Police said. He was taken to hospital on the mainland after the fall in St Mary’s Harbour on the largest island in the archipelago off Cornwall at around 8.30pm on Monday, but died later from his injuries. Read article

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