A TEENAGE boy has tragically become the twelfth person to die in water during Britain and Ireland’s record-breaking hot weather.
The 14-year-old died after “getting into difficulty” in the River Thames in Oxford at around 5.45pm yesterday.
A huge emergency response scrambled to the scene but the teenager was tragically confirmed dead after the incident at Donnington Bridge.
Thames Valley Police said the Oxford death is being treated as unexplained but not suspicious and its investigation is ongoing.
Eleven other people have sadly died in separate tragedies after getting into difficulty in water at popular beauty spots during the hot weather.
Police scrambled to the scene at 2.55pm on Wednesday following concerns for a swimmer in a pond in Swanscombe, Kent.
The body of a teenage boy was sadly pulled from the water, police said today.
Meanwhile, the body of 15-year-old Abbie Carmody-Pepper was recovered off Burrow Beach near Howth, Dublin, by the Irish Coast Guard on Sunday evening.
In another tragedy, Declan Sawyer, 15, died while swimming in a lake near his home in Lincoln at 2.30pm, also on Sunday.
Reco Pinnock, 13, sadly passed away after being rushed to hospital when he was pulled from Leadbeater Dam in Halifax, West Yorkshire, on Monday afternoon.
Emergency services also raced to Kingsbury Water Park, Warwickshire, just after 6pm on Monday, following concerns for welfare of a girl in the water.
Sadly, a 16-year-old was pronounced dead at the scene.
A body was also discovered in the hunt for a teenage boy who was last seen entering the water at Rother Valley Country Park, South Yorkshire, on the same day.
He has been named locally as 16-year-old Muhammad Secka, with tributes rolling in for the teenager who was “loved by many”.
Junior Slater, 12, vanished while swimming with friends in the River Ribble, in Lancashire, on Tuesday afternoon.
Emergency crews, including underwater search units, were scrambled to the river near Ribchester just after 2pm.
Junior’s body was sadly pulled from the water several hours later.
Issuing a statement through the police, his heartbroken family hailed him as the “soul of our lives”.
A body was also found in the search for a 17-year-old boy last seen getting into Pickmere Lake, near Northwich in Cheshire at 4.50pm on Tuesday.
In another tragedy, emergency services scrambled to Hawley Lake on the Hampshire-Surrey border.
A body thought to be a teenage boy was pulled from the water.
Phil Crow, 68, also lost his life after running into the water when his granddaughter and wife were pulled out to sea on Monday.
The grandad tragically went into cardiac arrest in the sea at Tregirls Beach in Padstow, Cornwall, at around 3.50pm.
A 72-year-old woman was also pulled from the water at West Angle Bay beach, Pembrokeshire in Wales, on Sunday.
A 15-year-old girl is also fighting for her life in hospital after getting into difficulty in the water off Formby beach.
Emergency services were called to the beach in Merseyside on Monday afternoon after the alarm was raised by members of the public.
The teen girl was rescued from the water and rushed to hospital for treatment.
She remains in a critical condition at Alder Hey Children’s Hospital, cops said.
The tragedies came as Brits flooded beaches, parks and pubs to enjoy scorching weather over the long weekend.
The Met Office said yesterday was hottest May day on record, with Kew Gardens in London reaching 25C.
Tuesday was also the warmest May day on record across Ireland.
