UPDATED: West Dorset cliff landslide victim named

9:54am Wednesday 25th July 2012 in News

A WOMAN who was killed under a massive landslide while watching cliff falls on the Jurassic Coast in West Dorset has been named as Charlotte Blackman.

The 22-year-old from Derbyshire was buried under hundreds of tonnes of rock when she was walking on the beach near Freshwater Beach Holiday Park at Burton Bradstock.

Ms Blackman, her boyfriend and his father were all buried when the 49m high cliff above them collapsed.

The men were pulled free by bystanders but they could not locate Ms Blackman.

Her body was found by emergency workers at 9.40pm within the 10m high pile of fallen rocks.

She was named by her uncle earlier.

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