Before specialist fire squads arrived, members of the public and police officers attempted to retrieve the children from the frigid water. Firefighters from the Sheldon Fire Station, approximately five miles from the park, were among those battling to save the youngsters.
Bystanders cheered as they laid flowers at the scene on Monday, amid a rising number of tributes. Local temperatures are believed to have plummeted to 1C (34F) at the time of the incident, then to -3C (26F) overnight.
The children were immediately sent to Birmingham Children’s and Heartlands Hospitals, however, police reported that they could not be resuscitated.
Update on the Solihull Lake Incident: Three youngsters died after falling into an icy lake.
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According to a friend of one of the youngsters who died after slipping into an ice lake in Solihull, the trio got into the water after attempting to rescue their trapped buddy. Three boys, aged 11, 10, and 8, died after falling into Babbs Mill Lake on Sunday afternoon.
A six-year-old child remains critically sick, and police have discounted concerns that there may be more people left beneath the lake after more than 24 hours with no new missing person reports. Tommy Barnet, ten, claimed to have seen details of the tragic occurrence on Sky News. They were all having a good time on the ice until one of them got his legs stuck, and when his friends raced to aid, they all plunged in.
According to Officer Supt. Harris, all of the officers who reacted to the incident entered the water without concern for their safety or any protective gear, with some going up to their waists. He said that one of his cops was breaking through the ice to save the children.
According to Supt. Harris, police were still working through the incident’s facts, so they couldn’t say how long the boys had been underwater before rescue came. He did, however, say that authorities came promptly after the original communication, which was made at about 14:30 GMT.
According to him, police were “doing everything we possibly could to support them” and were “following the families’ instructions on how much material was released to the public.”
More on Jack Johnson’s Grandfather, Who Tried To Save Them
According to accounts, the grandpa of the little boy who died after leaping into a frozen lake in Solihull ‘rushed from his house’ and leaped into the freezing water to attempt to save him. Neighbors allege Jack Johnson, 10, and three other children who went through the ice at Babbs Mill Park yesterday raced to the lake to save them.
The boys were playing on the frozen lake when the ice came way at 2.30 p.m., and he was joined by other members of the public and police officers who jumped into the frigid water to try to save them.
When Jack and three other boys, ages 6, 8, and 11, collapsed and were transported to the hospital in severe condition, he and the two older boys were unable to be rescued. Police announced today at a press conference held near the scene of the tragedy that the six-year-old is currently in serious condition at the hospital.
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