Three young boys who fell through ice covering a lake in central England have died and a fourth remains in hospital as weather forecasters issued severe weather warnings for large parts of the United Kingdom.
Police in full uniform jumped into the water and broke through the ice using their bare hands to pull the boys, ages 8, 10 and 11, from the icy waters Sunday afternoon and rushed them to the hospital in the West Midlands, about 160km north of London. But they could not be revived after suffering cardiac arrest.
One of the boys who died was 10-year-old Jack Johnson who neighbours said had been playing on the ice, The Daily Mail reported.
A neighbour said: “Jack and the other lads saw that it had been snowing from the flats and wanted to go and play.
“They rushed across to the park and were playing on top of the frozen lake, when the ice cracked.