Body found in search for boy, 12, missing in river

A assemblage has been recovered successful a hunt for a 12-year-old lad who went missing aft getting into trouble swimming successful a river.

The lad was with friends erstwhile helium got into trouble successful the River Ribble, Ribchester, Lancashire, astatine astir 14:00 BST connected Tuesday.

Police and occurrence crews with underwater units launched a large hunt of the country until a assemblage was recovered from the h2o astatine astir 19:50 BST.

Formal recognition of the assemblage has not yet taken spot but Lancashire Police said: "We judge it to beryllium the assemblage of the missing boy." The unit said the decease was not believed to beryllium suspicious and a record would beryllium passed to the coroner. The boy's household are being supported by specially trained officers.

Earlier, portion the large-scale hunt was nether way, 1 nonmigratory told BBC North West Tonight that portion of the stream was a "hotspot" for children and it tended to beryllium radical from retired of the country who visited to swim.

Ann-Marie Ruddock, who has lived successful Ribchester since 1991, said: "Locals are good alert of the dangers of the stream and they thin to support distant from it. It's nightmare scenario."

Much of England and Wales is successful an authoritative heatwave, with amber and yellowish heat-health alerts issued for galore areas by the UK Health Security Agency connected Tuesday.

In Halifax, West Yorkshire, a 13-year-old boy, named locally arsenic Reco Puttock, was pronounced dormant aft being pulled from Leadbeater Dam.

In Warwickshire, a teenage miss died astatine the country aft her assemblage was recovered from Kingsbury Water Park, portion successful Rotherham, South Yorkshire, constabulary recovered the assemblage of a teenage lad from a water successful Rother Valley Country Park.

The Royal Life Saving Society (RLSS) has issued a informing pursuing the deaths, saying "warmer upwind unluckily sees an summation successful accidental drownings".

The RLSS warned h2o temperatures remained precise cold, contempt accrued aerial temperatures, and that acold h2o daze could marque swimming hard and accrued the trouble successful getting retired of the water.

Anyone who saw idiosyncratic successful an exigency successful the h2o should telephone 999, enactment retired of the h2o themselves and propulsion them thing that floats, specified arsenic a integrative h2o vessel oregon shot for them to clasp onto and enactment afloat portion assistance is connected the way, the RLSS added.