A teenage boy has died in the sea at Skegness hours after a 21-year-old man drowned in a Doncaster lake – bringing the UK’s heatwave death toll to 23.
Emergency services rushed to reports that ‘a child under 16’ was in the water at around 6.15pm on Saturday.
A search was carried out by police officers and the coastguard, before the boy’s body was tragically recovered at around 11.30pm last night.
It comes just hours after the body of a man was pulled from a lake in Doncaster yesterday evening.
An air ambulance landed as an urgent search was launched following reports a man had ‘got in to difficulty in the water’ in Lakeside, Doncaster, at around 4.10pm.
But South Yorkshire Police later confirmed a body had been recovered from the lake.
He has been named locally as Jay Walker, today described as a ‘sweetheart’ by heartbroken friends and family.
Jay Walker (pictured) was named locally as the victim of an incident at a lake in Doncaster. He was today described as a ‘sweetheart’ by heartbroken friends and family
Aerial photo of the town centre of Skegness showing the pier on the sandy beach near fairground rides in the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire
No further details have been given about the teenager at this time.
Superintendent Lee Pache, of Lincolnshire Police, said: ‘We received a high volume of calls for missing people on the coast yesterday.
‘At one point, within two hours, we received 10 calls.
‘All of those who were reported missing, other than the child who sadly died, were located safe and well. Our thoughts are with the boy’s family.’
Little over two hours earlier, Mr Walker got into trouble at a lake in Doncaster.
Witness Lynne Lawrence said she heard a police aeroplane circulating for half an hour, and later saw a helicopter had landed.
A spokesperson for South Yorkshire Police said: ‘We are very sorry to report that following earlier information about an incident at Lakeside, Doncaster, a body has now been found.
‘Emergency services responded to the lake at around 4.10pm, after receiving calls that a man, aged in the 20s, had got in to difficulty in the water.
‘No formal identification has yet taken place. The man’s family have been informed and are being supported by specialist officers.’
Tributes have now poured in for the young man from friends and family on social media.
Skye Marie Bowers posted: ‘To the world you may have been just somebody, but to all of us you were the world. God really does take the best people.’
The body of a man in his 20s, named locally as Jay Walker, was been pulled from Doncaster Lake. Pictured: The air ambulance which landed after the urgent search was launched
Billy Jarmolinski added: ‘Can’t believe it’s true brother fly high gone too soon’.
Also on Saturday, an unidentified man was discovered in water at Park Lime Pits nature reserve in Walsall.
He was confirmed dead at the scene in Rushall after his body was spotted just after 10am.
Police officers have now launched an investigation and are treating his death as unexplained. Work is being carried out 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 water at Park Lime Pits, Walsall, at just after 10am today (August 13).
‘Sadly the man was confirmed dead at the scene and we’re in the process of identifying and informing his family.
‘The death is currently being treated as unexplained.’
The three deaths on Saturday come after two people were pulled from bodies of water on Thursday as the country was again hit with sweltering temperatures.
A body was pulled from the River Thames near a sailing club after a frantic search for a man who had disappeared under the water – as sky-high temperatures plunge the country into drought.
Firefighters, paramedics and a dive team were called to a stretch of the waterway near Desborough Sailing Club in Shepperton, Surrey at around 8pm on Thursday night following reports a man had gone underwater but then failed to resurface.
The same day, the body of another man was pulled from the water at Aira Point, close to the ferry stop, in Ullswater after a paddleboarder went missing.
Maryport Rescue coastguards were called out at 1.10pm and were joined by Patterdale Mountain Rescue Team, Cumbria Fire and Rescue Service, the Ullswater ranger the Whitehaven coastguard team and North West Ambulance Service.