A 50-year-old man has died after getting into difficulty while swimming in the sea in South Wales.

Coastguard crews, police and paramedics rushed to Tor Bay near Penmaen village on the Gower Peninsula on Friday afternoon after being alerted of the incident.

When they arrived, a 50-year-old man was pulled from the water at around 1pm, South Wales Police said.

The man, from Sandfields, Swansea, was declared dead at the scene by paramedics at around 4pm.

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