Greater Manchester: Girl, 15, dies in water in 'devastating' Tameside incident

A teen has died aft getting into trouble successful h2o successful Greater Manchester.

Police accidental the 15-year-old miss died contempt the champion efforts of aesculapian teams aft they were called to the colony of Broadbottom successful Tameside.

A ample rescue cognition was launched adjacent Hodge Lane, a tiny roadworthy which runs adjacent to the River Etherow.

Detective Superintendent Rebecca Boyce said the decease was "nothing abbreviated of devastating".

Police were called to the country astatine astir 19:50 BST connected Thursday night, and were assisted by ambulance crews and the occurrence and rescue service.

A connection from Greater Manchester Police said enquiries are ongoing but investigators were "confident determination aren't immoderate suspicious circumstances".

Det Supt Rebecca Boyce said: "Yesterday evening's events are thing abbreviated of devastating and my deepest sympathies are with the loved ones of the miss who mislaid her beingness successful specified atrocious circumstances.

"Officers volition proceed to enactment the household during this incredibly hard time."

It comes amid warnings from the RNLI and different information groups astir the dangers of unfastened h2o during the summertime months.

Of the 226 accidental drowning deaths successful 2022, astir fractional happened successful June, July and August, according to the National Fire Chiefs Council.

The statistics uncover that radical are astir doubly arsenic apt to suffer their lives successful inland bodies of h2o similar lakes and rivers than they are astatine sea.

The RNLI has travel nether unit successful immoderate areas successful caller days during the heatwave which has deed parts of the UK.