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A 14-year-old boy has drowned while playing in a nature reserve near Scunthorpe.
An air ambulance, police cars, water search teams and paramedics arrived at Ashby Ville Nature Reserve at around 3pm yesterday afternoon.
It took emergency services more than three hours to find the boy's body.
It comes a week after 23 people died over just seven days in heatwave-related drownings across the country.
A police spokesman said: 'At 3pm yesterday officers were called to Ashby Ville Nature Reserve, Scunthorpe, following reports for a concern for safety of a boy in the water.
'Upon attending, it was discovered that a 14 year-old boy had got into difficulty whilst playing at the reserve.
An air ambulance, police cars, water search teams and paramedics arrived at Ashby Ville Nature Reserve at around 3pm yesterday afternoon
It took emergency services (pictured at the scene) more than three hours to find the boy's body
'Specialist officers from our underwater search unit conducted a thorough search of the water and found the body of the boy in the water, who had tragically drowned.'
Detective Chief Inspector
