Hours after a 21-year-old man drowned in a lake in Doncaster, a teenage boy from Skegness died in the sea, increasing the total number of fatalities from the UK’s heatwave to 23.
Around 6.15 p.m. on Saturday, emergency services responded quickly to reports that “a youngster under 16” was in the water.
Police authorities and the coast guard conducted a search until the boy’s corpse was sadly found yesterday night at 11.30 p.m.
It happens only a few hours after a man’s corpse was discovered last evening in a lake near Doncaster.
At approximately 4.10 p.m., reports that a man had “gotten into difficulties in the water” near Lakeside, Doncaster, led to the quick initiation of a search and the landing of an air ambulance.
The discovery of a corpse in the lake was subsequently verified by South Yorkshire Police.
He has been identified as Jay Walker locally, and his saddened friends and family have called him a “sweetheart” today.
Lincolnshire Police Superintendent Lee Pache stated: “We had a significant number of reports for missing persons on the coast yesterday.”
‘We had ten calls in a span of two hours at one time.
With the exception of the youngster who regrettably passed away, everyone who was reported missing was found alive and healthy. We are praying for the boy’s family.
Mr. Walker ran into problems at a lake in Doncaster a little more than two hours ago.
Witness Lynne Lawrence said she heard a police jet flying above for 30 minutes before noticing a helicopter had touched down.
‘We are extremely sad to say that following prior information of an incident at Lakeside, Doncaster, a corpse has now been located,’ a South Yorkshire Police spokeswoman said.
Around 4.10 pm, emergency services were called to the lake following calls reporting that a man in his 20s had been stuck in the water.
No official identification has yet occurred. Specialist cops have notified and are assisting the man’s relatives.
Social media has been flooded with condolences for the young guy from his friends and relatives.
“To the world, you may have been just anybody, but to all of us, you were the world,” said Skye Marie Bowers in a post. The very finest individuals are chosen by God.
“Can’t believe it’s real brother fly high gone too soon,” Billy Jarmolinski said.
In Walsall’s Park Lime Pits nature reserve, a male who was not named was found in the water on Saturday as well.
After his corpse was discovered just after 10 am in Rushall, it was determined that he had died there.
Since his death is being treated as inexplicable, police have opened an inquiry.
It has been established that efforts are being made to identify the individual and notify his family of his passing.
‘The corpse of a male was found in water at Park Lime Pits, Walsall, at shortly after 10am today,’ a West Midlands Police spokesperson said (August 13).
‘Unfortunately, the individual was confirmed deceased at the site, and we’re working to identify and contact his family.
The cause of the death is now being investigated.
After two individuals were rescued from water on Thursday as the nation was once again battered by hot weather, there were three fatalities on Saturday.
After a frenzied hunt for a guy who had vanished beneath the water, a corpse was discovered in the River Thames close to a sailing club.
The discovery comes as the nation enters a drought due to record-high temperatures.
Around 8 o’clock on Thursday night, reports that a man had submerged and then failed to surface prompted the call-out of firefighters, paramedics, and a diving team to a section of the river close to Desborough Sailing Club in Shepperton, Surrey.
Another man’s corpse was discovered in the sea that day near Ullswater at Aira Point, not far from the ferry dock, after a paddleboarder went missing.
At 1:10 PM, the Whitehaven coastguard team, Patterdale Mountain Rescue Team, Cumbria Fire and Rescue Service, the Ullswater ranger, and North West Ambulance Service responded to a call from Maryport Rescue coastguards.