Illustration of the coast of the island of Ouessant, where a child was struck by a wave on October 28, 2020. -
Fred Tanneau / AFP
This Thursday morning, we still had no news of the child swept away by a wave on Wednesday afternoon on the island of Ouessant (Finistère).
According to the Maritime Prefecture of the Atlantic, this 10-year-old boy was walking with his family on the coast near the Creac'h lighthouse when he was struck by a wave.
Shaken by force 7 winds, the sea was rough on Wednesday off the Breton coast and hollows of ten to twenty meters were observed.
Launched around 4:30 pm, the search was suspended around 7:30 pm, "for lack of new information".
According to our information, the young boy was walking on the coast in the company of his father, his brother, his sister and a cousin when he was taken away at around 3.45 pm The means deployed by the Regional Operational Center of Surveillance and Rescue (CROSS) Corsen were consistent.
The Caiman helicopter of the French Navy, then that of the Civil Security were deployed, with the support of two land patrols of firefighters and volunteers from the National Society of Rescuers at Sea (SNSM) and a fire engine. .
Without visibility and in extremely degraded weather conditions, the search was suspended Wednesday when night had already fallen.
These coordinated resources should not be redeployed this Thursday.
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