The person killed in the mudslide in North Yorkshire on Wednesday has been named as schoolgirl Leah Harrison.
Thirty mountain rescuers were among the huge emergency services response after the ten-year-old died following a mudslide in North Yorkshire on Wednesday.
Lingfield Education Trust said she was a “much loved” Year 6 pupil at Mount Pleasant Primary School in Darlington.
Chief executive of the school’s trust Nick Blackburn said: “The full details are still emerging but this is clearly a heart-breaking tragedy.
“Leah was a much-loved part of our school and our thoughts and prayers are with her family, friends, and the school staff.
“Counselling is being arranged within the school for pupils and staff.
“We are all in a state of shock and we would ask that the privacy of the family and the school community is respected while we try to come to terms with what has happened.”
Cleveland Mountain Rescue Team (MRT) volunteers were called in the early afternoon to reports of a mudslide near Carlton Bank, above Carlton-in-Cleveland village on the edge of the North York Moors National Park.
North Yorkshire Police later confirmed one person had died following the incident at around 1.15pm.
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