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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Environment
Caroline Davies

Water-related deaths rise to 11 amid UK heatwave

People swim and use boats in the River Thames, lined with trees, with boats moored in the distance
People cooling off in the River Thames in Oxfordshire. Life savers have asked the public to ‘stop and think’ before entering the water. Photograph: Andrew Matthews/PA

The number of water-related deaths during the UK’s recent heatwave has risen to 11 after the bodies of two teenage boys were recovered in Kent and Oxford.

Emergency workers recovered the body of a 14-year-old boy from the River Thames near Donnington Bridge, Oxford, at about 5.30pm on Wednesday. Thames Valley police said the boy’s family had been informed and that his death was being treated as “unexplained but not suspicious”.

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