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A teenager has died after getting into difficulty in water at a beauty spot popular with hikers. He is now one of seven to die in the area commonly known as the Waterfall Country in the last seven years.

Sean Kanyoza, 19, a student from Swindon, had travelled to the Pontneddfechan falls in Bannau Brycheiniog – one of the most popular waterfall hikes in the country – with friends on Saturday, June 27.

What should have been a day of fun turned to tragedy when Mr Kanyoza died after he’d entered the water beneath the waterfall at Ystradfellte and got into difficulty.A teenager has died after getting into difficulty in water at a beauty spot popular with hikers. He is now one of seven to die in the area commonly known as the Waterfall Country in the last seven years.

Sean Kanyoza, 19, a student from Swindon, had travelled to the Pontneddfechan falls in Bannau Brycheiniog – one of the most popular waterfall hikes in the country – with friends on Saturday, June 27.

What should have been a day of fun turned to tragedy when Mr Kanyoza died after he’d entered the water beneath the waterfall at Ystradfellte and got into difficulty. Read more here