Boy, 14, collapses and dies after falling in mud at assault course

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A schoolboy has collapsed and died after falling into a muddy quagmire.

It’s understood the boy, 14, stopped breathing as he battled the muddy course in Surrey.

He was with a party of teenage schoolchildren taking part in an end of school term challenge at the Camelot Events adventure site in Beare Green.

A woman working near the assault course said: ‘I saw about two police cars and three ambulances and it did look quite serious.

‘A few of the kids came over for hot chocolates and things, and I overheard that it was a boy who inhaled lots of mud.

‘He’s done something wrong while on the course and inhaled lots of mud.

‘They were just in a field across the road from us, I could see loads of cars dropping the kids off and picking them up.

She added: ‘I believe they were a school party, a school event mud run.’

Emergency services rushed to the centre after the alarm was raised shorty before 1pm today and it was understood that other pupils were ushered away.

An air ambulance helicopter was scrambled to the scene along with road ambulances but there was nothing the crews could do to revive him and he was certified dead at the scene.

The mud assault course is just a few hundred yards from Henfold Lakes and the area is known to be quite boggy.