Emergency services respond to a report that an 18-year-old man goes missing after entering the River Wye in Glasbury, Powys, during a Duke of Edinburgh’s Award expedition in Wales. Multiple outlets report that the alarm is raised on Tuesday evening when he cannot be found after entering the water. A search operation follows, involving police and other responders, including Mountain Rescue and the fire service, according to one account.
Later reports state that his body is found following the search. Outlets describe the death as a drowning incident connected to the DofE trip. The River Wye location in Glasbury is consistently cited, and all accounts indicate that emergency services coordinate the response after the initial report. Police confirm the outcome, while details of the circumstances leading up to the incident beyond going missing after entering the water are not provided in the shared summaries.
