Body found in search for four-year-old Dylan Cecil

Friday 24 August 2012 13:13 BST

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A body has been found by emergency services searching for a four-year-old boy who went missing after falling into the sea in Somerset.

Dylan Cecil was on holiday with his family when he stumbled into the water at Burnham-on-Sea at 6pm on Sunday.

The body was found near a yacht club at about 12.30pm yesterday.

Dylan's parents, from Northamptonshire, have been told. Formal identification has yet to be carried out.

He had wanted to get a closer look at the sea when he slipped off a jetty and disappeared beneath the water.

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