Heatwave drowning death toll reaches 24 as body of girl, 14, found

Heatwave drowning death toll climbs to 24 as body of teenage girl, 14, is tragically pulled from water at Greater Manchester angling club

• The body of a 14-year-old girl was found in the water in Stalybridge yesterday
• Emergency services were called to Carrbrook Angling Club at 6:30pm
• The body was recovered from the water near Cromswood Drive overnight 
• The teenager has been formally identified and officers are supporting her family

The body of a 14-year-old girl has tragically been pulled from a waterway after she got into difficulty while swimming in Greater Manchester, as the UK’s heatwave death toll reaches 24. 

Emergency services were called to Carrbrook Angling Club in Stalybridge, Tameside, just before 6:30pm yesterday, then scoured the area.

The body was sadly recovered from the water near Cromswood Drive in Carrbrook, a village to the east of Stalybridge, overnight.

A body has been found in the search for a 14-year-old girl who got into difficulty whilst swimming in Greater Manchester

The body of a teenager was pulled form the water near Cromswood Drive in Carrbrook, a village to the east of Stalybridge, overnight after reports of her getting into trouble in the water at 4;12pm

The girl has been formally identified and trained officers are supporting her family, as the UK’s heatwave death toll reaches 24

The street lies close to both the River Tame and two fishing lakes.

The girl has been formally identified and trained officers are supporting her family.

The North Ambulance Service (NWAS) sent ‘a number of resources’ including the Hazardous Area Response Team to the incident. 

Inquiries are ongoing but officers from Tameside CID said they are confident there are no suspicious circumstances following their initial inquiries. 

The North Ambulance Service (NWAS) sent ‘a number of resources’ including th Hazardous Area Response Team to the incident

Inquiries are ongoing but officers from Tameside CID said they are confident there are no suspicious circumstances following their initial inquiries

Detective Inspector Steven Horton, of Tameside CID said: ‘Yesterday evening’s events are nothing short of devastating and my thoughts are with the friends and family of the young girl who lost her life in such an awful way.

‘We are doing all we can to support the girl’s family at this incredibly difficult time and we are focused on ensuring they get the answers they deserve as to how this tragedy occurred.’

He added that this incident was a ‘sad reminder of the dangers of entering open water, whatever the weather.’

Emergency services looked dejected as they searched the water at Carrbrook Angling club in the dark

The alarm was raised at around 6:30pm yesterday and the body of a 14-year-old girl was found in the water overnight

Detective Inspector Steven Horton, of Tameside CID said yesterday’s events were ‘nothing short of devastating’ and a ‘sad reminder of the dangers of entering open water’

This comes after a the body of a man ‘in his early 20s’ was pulled from the Hampton Court area of the River Thames after getting into trouble in the water on Sunday.

On Saturday, a ‘child under 16’ and a 21-year-old man also died swimming during a heatwave that saw temperatures reach 33C this weekend. 

Police, paramedics, firefighters and lifeboat crews rushed to the scene at Hampton Court on Sunday following a call at 4:12pm to a person in the water getting into difficulty.

However the body of the man was recovered at around 10:30pm. 

Superintendent Richard Smith, Acting Commander for the South West, said: ‘Our thoughts go out to the young man who has lost his life.

This comes after the body of a man ‘in his early 20s’ was pulled from the Hampton Court area of the River Thames after getting into trouble in the water on Sunday

Police, paramedics, firefighters and lifeboat crews rushed to the scene at Hampton Court on Sunday following a call at 4:12pm to a person in the water getting into difficulty

‘Our officers worked incredibly hard with partner agencies but despite a rapid response he could not be rescued.’

A spokesperson for Metropolitan Police said a ‘multi-agency response’ was launched.

The spokesperson added: ‘Officers from the South West Command Unit and Surrey Police, the National Police Air Service, as well as the London Fire Brigade, London Ambulance Service and RNLI, began searching the river.

‘At around 10.30pm the body of the man – believed to be aged in his early 20s – was recovered from the water by police divers. His next of kin have been informed.’

Superintendent Richard Smith, Acting Commander for the South West, said officers ‘worked extremely hard with partner agencies but despite a rapid response he could not be rescued’

Max Taylor, a senior news editor at NBC, was paddle-boarding at Hampton Court Palace when the incident happened, and spoke to eyewitnesses.

‘They told me a young male in his mid-late teens was swimming in the river near Hampton Court bridge,’ he told Sky News.

‘He called for help and was in waist deep water. They said they thought he was joking as he wasn’t in deep water — seconds later he had disappeared.

‘I paddled past and saw the inflatable search boats go in and start looking for the young lad — but it must have been a good 10-15 minutes since I spoke to the couple in the boat.’

On Saturday, the body of a 21-year-old man – named locally as Jay Walker – was pulled from a lake in Doncaster

Emergency services rushed to reports that ‘a child under 16’ was in the water and a search was carried before the boy’s body was recovered at around 11;30pm on Saturday. 

Just two hours earlier, the body of a 21-year-old man – named locally as Jay Walker – was pulled from a lake in Doncaster.

Also on Saturday, an unidentified man was discovered in water at Park Lime Pits nature reserve in Walsall.

Police officers have launched an investigation and are treating his death as unexplained. Work is bein carried out to identify the man and inform his family of his death, it has been confirmed.

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