BOY KILLED IN CAVE TRAGEDY.Byline: Rod Chaytor A CAMPING trip ended in tragedy yesterday when a schoolboy was crushed to death when a cave collapsed. Aiden Brookes, 16, was staying overnight with around 20 friends to celebrate the first days of the Easter holidays Easter holidays npl → Semana Santa sg . A campfire they lit to keep warm is thought to have triggered the collapse. A three-foot section of the sandstone sandstone, sedimentary rock formed by the cementing together of grains of sand. The usual cementing material in sandstone is calcium carbonate, iron oxides, or silica, and the hardness of sandstone varies according to the character of the cementing material; quartz roof fell onto the sleeping Army cadet around 2.15am. A 999 crew were called to the Hermitage Hermitage, museum, St. Petersburg, Russia Hermitage (ĕr'mētäzh`), museum in St. Petersburg, Russia, one of the world's foremost houses of art. It was reconstructed in the neoclassical style in the 19th cent. caves, near Bridgnorth in Shropshire, but Aiden was declared dead soon after reaching hospital. Aiden's friend Jack Martin, 16, said: "One lad heaved the rock off his chest, but he was already gone by then." An 18-year-old girl called Jessie was treated for back, neck and rib injuries. She was in a serious condition yesterday but her injuries were not thought to be life-threatening.. CAPTION(S): CAMPING HORROR: Aiden Brookes |
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