A teenager has been airlifted to hospital after being buried under sand while digging a 7ft hole on a beach.
Norfolk Fire Service crews were called at about 15:15 BST to Beach Road, Caister-on-Sea, to reports of a girl, aged 15, who was trapped under sand.
Rescuers said she was completely immersed by the sand and was in the hole for at least 10 minutes.
The girl, from Kent, was taken to hospital in Gorleston. Her injuries are not thought to be life threatening.
Police said the girl was "conscious and alert" and in shock when she was taken by the helicopter to the James Paget Hospital.
Paul Williams, coxswain of Caister Lifeboat, who lives 50 yards away from where the girl was buried, said he and three other people had helped dig her out with shovels.
BBC News - Girl, 15, buried digging hole on Caister-on-Sea beach
Norfolk Fire Service crews were called at about 15:15 BST to Beach Road, Caister-on-Sea, to reports of a girl, aged 15, who was trapped under sand.
Rescuers said she was completely immersed by the sand and was in the hole for at least 10 minutes.
The girl, from Kent, was taken to hospital in Gorleston. Her injuries are not thought to be life threatening.
Police said the girl was "conscious and alert" and in shock when she was taken by the helicopter to the James Paget Hospital.
Paul Williams, coxswain of Caister Lifeboat, who lives 50 yards away from where the girl was buried, said he and three other people had helped dig her out with shovels.
BBC News - Girl, 15, buried digging hole on Caister-on-Sea beach
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