A police search has been launched after an 11-year-old boy went missing after entering a river in Yorkshire on Saturday.
The boy entered the River Don in Mexborough yesterday with police being called at 7.59pm.
Doncaster Response Team Inspector Neil Pryce said: “We know, from witnesses and items left on the riverbank, where the boy entered the water.
“Utilising specialist knowledge and skills, a coordinated multi-agency operation is under way and we are doing everything we can to find this young man.
“We are invaluably assisted by an underwater search team, supported from above by the police helicopter and drones.
“This is a tragic incident and we understand that members of the public want to do all they can to help but we must ask that, for everyone’s safety, only those who are involved in our operation enter the River Don.”
South Yorkshire Police said in a statement: “Officers, alongside emergency crews from the National Police Air Service, South Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service, and the Yorkshire Ambulance Service, responded and a specialist search operation remains under way.”
The boy’s family have been informed and are being supported by specialist officers.
Personnel from the National Police Air Service, South Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service and the Yorkshire Ambulance Service have aided in the search.
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