Search under way after people pulled from icy lake near Birmingham - BBC

A hunt and rescue cognition is nether mode aft constabulary said a fig of radical pulled from a water adjacent Birmingham successful freezing temperatures are successful a captious condition.

Reports suggested radical had been playing connected the crystal astatine Babbs Mill Park and fell through, according to West Midlands Fire Service.

It said radical had received attraction earlier being taken to hospital.

Specialist teams and instrumentality are progressive successful the search.

The occurrence work said they were called soon aft 14:30 GMT connected Sunday.

Concerned members of the assemblage gathered adjacent the country successful what is residential area, arsenic exigency services carried retired enactment astatine the lake.

A drone was besides spotted flying implicit the water, the BBC's Sophie Madden said, reporting from the scene.

It was apt that the exigency work beingness would stay determination for a fig of hours, she added.

Babbs Mill Park is simply a section quality reserve with a lake, river, wildflower grasslands and woodlands.

Temperatures of 1C (34F) were reported successful the country astatine the clip the exigency services were called. They are expected to plummet to -3C during the night.

Meanwhile, constabulary successful Cumbria said they were dealing with an "incident" astatine Siddick Pond successful Workington. The unit aboriginal confirmed no-one was unaccounted for.

The Met Office warned of the dangers posed by ice.

A spokesperson said: "With temperatures acceptable to conflict to get overmuch supra freezing implicit the coming days crossed overmuch of the country, stretches of h2o specified arsenic rivers and ponds are astatine hazard of freezing.

"While frozen rivers and ponds tin beryllium fascinating, they tin beryllium unsafe and a hazard to life."

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