A mother and daughter drowned trying to save a seven-year-old boy after they got into difficulty in the water off an Essex beach. Shelina Rahman, a British-Bangladeshi teacher in her 40s, and her daughter Sameeha Rahman, 15, died at Seaview Avenue in West Mersea near Colchester on Wednesday evening. At this stage we believe they were trying to help a seven-year-old boy who had got into difficulties. "The boy was taken to hospital where he remains in a critical condition but the woman and teenage girl, sadly, died. In 2023, a father died at the beach while trying to save his toddler, after they were swept away by a riptide.