Two taken to hospital after Ballycastle boating incident

Image caption, Ballycastle beach, where paramedics treated the casualties

Two people have been taken to hospital and three others have been treated by paramedics after a boating incident off the coast of Ballycastle, County Antrim.

The Northern Ireland Ambulance Service got a 999 call at 11:37 BST.

The Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) said three people on water pedal bikes went into the surf zone and got swamped by a wave.

They were helped on to a group leader's boat that then capsized.

The RNLI said everyone made it to shore but by that stage a member of the public had raised the alarm.

RNLI lifeguards administered first aid before passing them over to the care of the ambulance service.

Four crews and an ambulance officer were despatched to the scene.

The Air Ambulance, with a medical crew on board, was also deployed.

Two people were taken by ambulance to the Causeway Hospital in Coleraine, County Londonderry.