A BOY of 14 pulled from the sea off the Kent coast earlier this week has died in hospital.

The boy had been in a critical condition after being pulled lifeless from the sea at Joss Bay, Broadstairs.

Members of the public retrieved the teenager who was blue and had no life signs or pulse, from the water at about 1.30pm on Wednesday.

Police officers and passers-by carried out life-saving chest compressions and breathed for the boy until ambulance crews arrived. After about 40 minutes of resuscitation efforts the boy regained a pulse.

He was flown to Queen Mother Hospital at Margate by the Kent Air Ambulance, but was later transferred to Guy’s Hospital in London where he died on Thursday night.

Witnesses had earlier seen the boy, who lived in Margate, walking in the water. The reason for him being in the sea is still unknown.