A teenage boy has died in the sea off Skegness hours after a 21-year-old man drowned in a Doncaster lake – bringing the death toll from the UK heat wave to 23.
Emergency services rushed to report that ‘a child under 16’ was in the water around 6.15 pm on Saturday.
A search was conducted by police officers and the Coast Guard before the boy’s body was tragically recovered around 11:30 p.m. last night.
It comes just hours after a man’s body was recovered from a lake in Doncaster last night.
An air ambulance landed as an urgent search was launched following reports that a man had ‘fallen into the water’ in Lakeside, Doncaster, around 4:10 pm.
But South Yorkshire Police later confirmed a body had been found in the lake.
He has been referred to locally as Jay Walker, today described as a ‘sweetheart’ by heartbroken friends and family.
Aerial view of Skegness town center showing the pier on the sandy beach near fairground rides in the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire
No further details about the teen have been released at this time.
Lincolnshire Police Chief Inspector Lee Pache said: ‘We received a large number of calls yesterday for missing people on the coast.
“At one point, we got ten calls within two hours.
“All the people reported missing, except for the child who sadly died, were found safe and sound. Our thoughts are with the boy’s family.’
Just over two hours earlier, Mr. Walker ran into trouble at a lake in Doncaster.
Witness Lynne Lawrence said she heard a police plane circulating for half an hour and later saw a helicopter land.
A South Yorkshire Police spokesman said: ‘We are very sorry to report that a body has now been found following previous information about an incident at Lakeside, Doncaster.
“Emergency services rushed to the lake around 4:10 p.m. after receiving calls that a man in his twenties had gotten into trouble in the water.
“No formal identification has yet taken place. The man’s family has been informed and is assisted by specialized agents.’
Tributes for the young man are pouring in from friends and family on social media.
Skye Marie Bowers wrote: ‘To the world you may have been just someone, but to all of us you were the world. God really takes the best people.’
The body of a man in his twenties, known locally as Jay Walker, was recovered from Doncaster Lake. Pictured: the trauma helicopter that landed after the urgent search was started
Billy Jarmolinski added: ‘I can’t believe it’s true, brother is flying away too fast’.
Also on Saturday, an unidentified man was discovered in the waters of the Park Lime Pits Nature Reserve in Walsall.
He was confirmed dead at the scene in Rushall after his body was discovered just after 10 a.m.
Police officers have now launched an investigation and are treating his death as unexplained. Work is underway to identify the man and inform his family of his death, it has been confirmed.
A West Midlands Police spokesman said: ‘The body of a man was discovered in the water at Park Lime Pits, Walsall today (13 August) just after 10am.
“Unfortunately, the man was confirmed dead at the scene and we are in the process of identifying and informing his family.
“The death is currently being treated as inexplicable.”
The three deaths on Saturday come after two people were pulled from water on Thursday as the country was hit again by sweltering temperatures.
A body was pulled from the River Thames near a sailing club after a frantic search for a man who had disappeared underwater – as sky-high temperatures plunge the country into drought.
Firefighters, paramedics and a diving team were called to a stretch of waterway near Desborough Sailing Club in Shepperton, Surrey, around 8 p.m. Thursday evening after reports that a man had gone under but never resurfaced.
That same day, the body of another man was recovered from the water at Aira Point, close to the ferry stop, in Ullswater after a paddleboarder went missing.
Maryport Rescue Coast Guards were called in at 1:10 p.m. and were joined by Patterdale Mountain Rescue Team, Cumbria Fire and Rescue Service, the Ullswater ranger, Whitehaven Coastguard team and North West Ambulance Service.