A five-year-old girl who was seriously ill after the canoe she was in capsized has died in hospital, police have said.
Gracie Mackay, from the Muir of Ord, was on board the boat which capsized in Loch Gairloch, near Ullapool in the Scottish Highlands, yesterday afternoon.
Brothers Ewen Beaton, five, and two-year-old Jamie also died in hospital after being airlifted from the water by helicopter.
The search for their father, Ewen Fraser Beaton, 32, has been stood down for the day. He is presumed dead.
A statement from Northern Constabulary said: "Police can confirm that five-year-old Gracie Mackay from the Muir of Ord area has sadly passed away late this afternoon at Yorkhill Hospital following the Gairloch water incident yesterday."
Mr Beaton and his sons were in the six-man boat with Gracie, her 35-year-old father and her older sister, who is eight.
Gracie's father and sister managed to swim to shore unscathed and ran to nearby houses shouting for help, triggering the emergency response on Sunday.
Sky News Scotland correspondent James Matthews described what happened: "The father went to a house nearby and - I'm led to believe - collapsed on the front lawn shouting for help."
Loch Gairloch is on Scotland's northwest coast Matthews added: "While this is clearly a story of terrible tragedy, it is something of a tale of remarkable survival on the part of the eight-year-old in particular, who must have swum something like 200 or 300 metres to safety on the shore."
Police called the girl "extremely courageous".
James Cameron, 34, who co-runs the Sands Caravan and Camping site in Gairloch, Wester Ross, told Sky News how he helped find Gracie in the water.
He said: "We were just coming in [from a boat trip] and heard there was a girl missing, so we went out and actually found her.
Loch Gairloch "We found her face down, she was unconscious. She had her buoyancy aid on, it was keeping her afloat but it wasn't keeping her head out the water."
They tried to resuscitate her before she was taken to hospital.
It is not known what caused the vessel to turn over. Weather conditions were good, with light winds and calm seas.
In a statement the Beaton family said: "We are utterly devastated by what has happened and the loss of our beautiful little boys.
"We appreciate all that has and is being done by emergency services to find their adoring father, Ewen.
"It is too difficult to say anything more at this time and we would appreciate our family being left in peace to grieve our terrible loss."
The adults in the Canadian-style open canoe are understood not to have been wearing life jackets.
Both families involved are from the Black Isle in the north of Scotland.
Murdo Macaulay, of Stornoway Coastguard, earlier said it was unclear what caused the tragedy.
He told Sky News: "The area around Big Sands is very popular with tourists. A lot of water sports generally take place there.
"To our knowledge, there are no particular hazards in that area, sea-wise. It's not particularly remote by west coast standards. We had a lot of craft in the area yesterday who responded and were involved in yesterday's rescue operation."
