Body found on shore of Solway Firth confirmed as Shona Campbell after quicksand tragedy

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A body found on the shores of the Solway Firth has been confirmed as 74-year-old Shona Campbell who got stuck in quicksand.Shona got into trouble near Cummertrees, in Dumfries and Galloway, on Monday evening, sparking a full-scale search of the area.Coastguard teams found a body in the quicksand on Tuesday evening and it has now been formally identified as that of the 74-year-old, who was visiting the area with family.A Police Scotland spokesman said: “Her death is being treated as unexplained but not believed to be suspicious and a report will be sent to the procurator fiscal.”Ms Campbell had been staying with her family at West Moss-side Caravan Park in Cummertrees and had gone for a walk with her dog on Monday evening when she got stuck around 5pm – little more than an hour before high tide.She phoned 999 and a search took place, with Coastguard crews from Annan, Burgh-by-Sands and Portling involved.

It was stood down around 11pm and resumed on Tuesday morning.The search resumed on Tuesday morning, with Ms Campbell’s body being found around 5.40pm.HM Coastguard senior coastal operations officer, Stewart Bryden, said: “It was a treacherous recovery for us, we really had to think outside the box on how we were going to do this – and it was night time so it was starting to get dark.

Click here for more news and sport from Dumfries and Galloway. “We had to work in the quicksand to release the lady to get her back to the helicopter.

It was difficult for the helicopter as the winchman had gone down to recover the lady and had nowhere to stand as it was that soft.“It was a very difficult recovery but I have to take my hat off to everybody involved - Nith Rescue, mountain rescue, the police, the fire brigade.“Everybody worked