- Contributed byÌý
- Ronald Wilson
- People in story:Ìý
- Ronnie Wilson
- Location of story:Ìý
- Seaforth Sands, Lancashire
- Background to story:Ìý
- Civilian
- Article ID:Ìý
- A8995585
- Contributed on:Ìý
- 30 January 2006
I was walking along Rawson Road with my friend, Dan Creamer, when we heard an explosion on the beach. I raced across Crosby Road into Potters Barn and down to the beach. I found a policeman, picking up pieces of a young boy who had walked onto the landmines. He asked me to help and I saw part of the child’s foot and skin on the barbed wire and decided I couldn’t stay. The boy had crawled through the wire to retrieve his football.
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