Solihull: Six-year-old boy who fell into icy lake dies - BBC

A six-year-old who was 1 of 4 boys to autumn into an icy water adjacent Solihull has died, constabulary person said.

The 3 others, aged eight, 10 and 11, who person besides died were with the younger kid astatine Babbs Mill Park, successful Kingshurst, connected Sunday.

West Midlands Police said it was with "heartfelt sadness" it had to study the six-year-old successful infirmary had "lost his combat for life".

Hundreds of floral tributes and toys person been near astatine a tract adjacent the lake.

West Midlands Fire Service, which was besides progressive successful the effort to rescue the boys, said it was "devastated" to perceive the news.

It added: "We privation the household spot and comfortableness successful these tragic circumstances."

The 10-year-old has been named locally arsenic Jack Johnson, but the identities of the different 3 boys are yet to beryllium confirmed.

Specialist diving teams were successful the h2o until Tuesday, though constabulary person stressed they person not had reports of anyone other missing.

They added each searches had present been completed and the cordon would beryllium lifted.

On Wednesday, constabulary said their deepest sympathies were with the families and friends of the children.

"We cannot comprehend the enormity of the symptom they indispensable consciousness and our hearts spell retired to them," a connection said.

A household subordinate of Jack said each the families progressive successful the calamity were suffering "unimaginable pain".

His aunt Charlotte McIlmurray thanked the section assemblage connected societal media for their support.

Members of the nationalist and constabulary officers initially went into the h2o to effort to get the children, earlier they were pulled retired by specializer h2o rescue-trained firefighters. One policeman punched done crystal to effort to scope the boys.

Mourners person continued to sojourn Kingshurst, with hundreds of cards and gifts near by the assemblage and radical paying their respects astatine a tract adjacent Babbs Mill Lake.

On Wednesday, England footballer Tyrone Mings and his Aston Villa teammate John McGinn went to the country to laic flowers.

Mings said it was a "personal decision" to wage their respects and said: "I deliberation it's impacted the full metropolis [of Birmingham].

"Sometimes, arsenic we've seen with different things that person happened crossed the city, determination are things much important than football," helium said.

"We felt it was important to travel down here, amusement our respects and amusement we were reasoning astir everything that has happened and the parents that are affected by it.

The players had been astatine the club's mid-season grooming campy successful Dubai earlier returning to the UK up of Thursday night's location affable against Spanish broadside Villareal.

Club skipper McGinn said: "We were successful Dubai erstwhile we heard the quality and I thought of my nieces and nephews, and the players thought astir their kids.

"It was surely moving for us."

Birmingham City's caput manager John Eustace laid a wreath astatine the memorial connected behalf of the squad connected Tuesday.

The assemblage successful Kingshurst was praised astatine Prime Minister's Questions earlier, arsenic good arsenic exigency services unit who responded.

Saqib Bhatti, Conservative MP for Meriden, told the Commons the radical who helium represents had suffered "an unimaginable tragedy" and the families were successful his thoughts and prayers.

He asked the premier curate to articulation him successful paying tribute to the assemblage that had "come unneurotic and is supporting each different to get done this tragedy".

"And volition you recognise the heroic efforts of the exigency services, including the constabulary serviceman who utilized his bare hands to effort and interruption done the crystal and past jumped successful the h2o with occurrence work personnel, without the PPE, risking their ain lives to prevention the young children?" helium said.

Rishi Sunak sent his condolences to the families and friends of the boys and paid tribute to the exigency services for "their incredibly selfless actions".