Rescue teams searching for a teenage boy who entered a lake in Leicestershire have recovered his body.
Police were called to Meynell Lake, off Fosse Way in Syston, to reports a teenage boy had entered the lake at 13:30 BST on Thursday.
On Friday, police divers recovered a body and confirmed it was the teenager who entered the lake, which is used for boating and angling.
A Leicestershire Police spokesperson said the boy’s family were being supported by officers, and added: “There is no suggestion of any suspicious circumstances and a file will be prepared for HM Coroner. Naming will be a matter for the coroner.”
There have been a number of water-related deaths during recent hot weather spells, including that of a 12-year-old boy whose body was found in the River Ribble in Ribchester, Lancashire, and a 17-year-old boy who went missing at Pick Mere lake in Cheshire.
Young people have also died in Nottinghamshire, Kent, Oxford, Lincoln, Halifax, Rotherham, Warwickshire, Farnborough and Scotland, along with a man in his 60s in Cornwall and a woman in her 70s in Wales.
The unprecedented June heatwave is continuing, with a red extreme heat warning in force for central southern England and south-east England, with heat-related health dangers and problems for infrastructure continuing.
