Teen dies after getting trapped under several feet of sand at Cape Hatteras National Seashore

A 17-year-old from Chesapeake, Virginia died Saturday after being buried in a hole under several feet of sand at Cape Hatteras National Seashore, the seashore said.

Family and friends looking for the teen found him trapped under sand, the seashore said, after parts of an adjacent dune apparently collapsed into the hole. 

It was just east of an off-road vehicle ramp in Frisco, N.C. in a back-dune area behind a main dune and couldn't be seen from the beachfront, the seashore pointed out.