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Deep beach holes are dangerous, Outer Banks town warns

(AP) - A town on North standing,” he said in an in- town of Kitty Hawk in 1999,
Carolina’s Outer Banks terview with The Associated a teenage girl was in a deep
issued a public plea to Press. hole on the beach that was
beachgoers about the dan- close to the water when a
gers of digging holes on Deep beach holes, in addi- swell crashed in and filled it,
the oceanfront just hours tion to possibly resulting in covering her without a way
before a man died at a injuries for those who dig to get out.
New Jersey beach when a them, could delay or dam-
hole collapsed on him. age rescue vehicles operating In 2014, a Fredericksburg,
on the beach, officials said in Virginia, man died at Salvo,
Officials from Kill Devil their online post. They can also on the Outer Banks,
Hills posted a picture Tues- also trap sea turtles and their when sand collapsed on top
day on Facebook showing hatchlings, leading to fatal re- of him after authorities said
rescue supervisor David El- sults, the post said. he was tunneling between
der standing in a large hole two holes about 6 feet (1.8
that he said was as much as 7 A man commenting on the meters) deep. When rescu-
feet deep (2 meters) in some post mentioned that he broke ers found the man, his family
places. Elder said he is 6 feet, his foot in four places and said he had been buried for
4 inches (193 centimeters) required two surgeries after up to 15 minutes, according
tall. stepping into a beach hole to the National Park Service.
one night in 2017.
Elder said ocean rescue staff Police in New Jersey said an
had warned the people dig- Elder said because the ocean 18-year-old from Maine died
ging the hole about the dan- water is cold, beachgoers on Tuesday while playing
gers and they promised to fill tend to seek “alternate enter- with his sister at the beach
it in before they left. It was tainment.” when a large hole they were
still there when he went by digging in the sand collapsed.
after work, he said. “Sadly, this is the way that The Toms River Police De-
people choose to spend their partment said in a state-
“Some people said there was time,” he said. ment that the sister was also
an issue, and sure enough, I trapped but was rescued and
could see it from where I was Elder recalled how in the treated at the scene.

Finland brewery launches NATO beer with ‘taste of security’

transfer request of the total town money paid into an ac-
amount to Taguchi, whose count believed to be an online
name was the first on the list gambling site. Police declined
of recipients, Kyodo News to say how much of the mon-
reported. ey he actually gambled away,
though he told them it was
Town officials are separately most of it.
(AP) — The money was Yamaguchi prefectural police of computer fraud. Tagu- investigating how the erro-
supposed to be COVID-19 said. chi had allegedly refused the neous transfer went through
assistance for low-income town request to return the unnoticed, a mistake that has
households in a small Jap- Police said Thursday he ad- money, police said. triggered a wave of criticism
anese town, but it was mis- mitted to spending most from residents.
takenly wired to a bank of the 46.3 million yen The funds were COVID-19
account of a resident who ($360,000) of taxpayers’ subsidies that were depos- Abu Mayor Norihiko Hana-
refused to return it and money on gambling. Accord- ited into his bank account in da on Thursday told report-
spent most of it on online ing to Kyodo News agency, April. Each of the 463 low- ers that the arrest is a step to-
gambling, police said. only 68,000 yen ($530) is left income households in Abu, ward tracing the money and
in his bank account after he population 3,372, was sup- hoped it is recovered in full.
Sho Taguchi, a 24-year-old withdrew the money 34 times posed to receive 100,000 yen
jobless resident in the town in just over 10 days after the ($780). But a town official Taguchi’s arrest was based
of Abu in western Japan, town made the mistake. mistakenly submitted to a on his alleged transfer of 4
was arrested on Wednesday, He’s being held on suspicion financial institution a single million yen ($31,300) of the