A teenage boy has died after entering the water at Skegness. Lincolnshire Police said emergency services received a report that a child under 16 was in the sea at around 6.15pm on Saturday, August 13.
A search was carried out by police, the coastguard and lifeboat crews and the boy’s body was recovered at around 11.30pm, Lincolnshire Live reports.
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 the 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.”
