A 13-year-old girl dies after being rescued from the River Wharfe in North Yorkshire. Reports say she is reported missing after going into or being in the river near Burnsall, in the Yorkshire Dales National Park close to Skipton, on Sunday evening. Emergency services find and pull her from the water, and she is taken to hospital, where she is later pronounced dead. Police confirm the death and continue to respond to the incident area.
Separate reporting also describes an ongoing search for an 11-year-old boy in connection with wider concerns about water-related incidents during a period of hot weather. One outlet notes that water-related deaths in the UK during the heatwave reach at least 15, with the girl’s death and the boy’s disappearance among them. However, the specific link between the separate boy incident and the River Wharfe case is not detailed in the provided summaries. Overall, the sources agree on the girl’s age, location of the incident near Burnsall/Skipton, her rescue from the River Wharfe, and that she dies in hospital.
