Police said the family of the three women ‘remain unaware they have lost loved ones’

Sussex Police attended the scene in Brighton at around 5.45am

Sussex police say officers are working to identify women and understand what happened to them

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Police said the family of the three women ‘remain unaware they have lost loved ones’

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Sussex Police believe they have identified three women who died in the sea off Brighton beach adding investigators have “a number of hypotheses” about how they died

Police will not publicly name the women until the formal identification procedures are finished

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Residents in Brighton have told how the seabed falls away dramatically not far from the beach as police continue to investigate the deaths of three women whose bodies were found…

The tragedy happened early on Wednesday morning after the emergency services were called out to reports of a woman seen struggling in the sea off the beach