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Son of singer Nick Cave dies after fall off cliff

Singer Nick Cave, pictured in 2014. Larry Busacca / Getty Images

TORONTO — The son of singer Nick Cave died Tuesday after falling off a cliff.

Arthur Cave, 15, was found on a path at the foot of Ovingdean Gap in Brighton, England. He had fallen about 18 metres.

Emergency crews rushed him to hospital, where he died of his injuries.

Police believe the fall was an accident.

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“He was our beautiful, happy loving boy,” Nick Cave and his wife Susie said in a statement. “We ask that we be given the privacy our family needs to grieve at this difficult time.”

Arthur, who has a twin brother Earl, had recently finished the academic year at the private St. Bede’s School.

Nick Cave, 57, is best known for his work with The Bad Seeds.

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