Les Quennevais School pupil Eoin Corcoran (14) died in hospital following what the States police have described as a ‘tragic accident’.
On Monday morning St Brelade Constable Steve Pallett said that he believed the Year 10 pupil, who was in the middle of completing his GCSEs, died after a sand bank collapsed onto him and trapped him underneath.
Police, firefighters and paramedics were called at about 5.30 pm and worked to save the boy’s life at the scene and on the way to the hospital but he was pronounced dead in the Emergency Department.
A States police incident command post was set up in the area and officers remained at the scene late into the night and returned the next day.
The death is not being treated as suspicious.
Following the accident, Islanders were being warned to avoid the area and temporary danger signs have been erected by the Infrastructure Department in the middle of one the largest dunes where several bouquets of flowers have been left.
A Facebook page – RIP Eoin Corcoran – has also been set up by the teenager’s brother, James and dozens of young Islanders, many of whom went to school with Eoin, have left tribute messages.
