It was on 11 December last year that West Midlands police were called to Babbs Mill lake in England following reports that four children had fallen into the water.
The children were the four boys Jack Johnson (10), the brothers Samuel (6) and Finlay Butler (8) and their cousin Thomas Stewart (11).
The boys are said to have fallen through the ice, one by one, in an attempt to feed ducks.
The newspaper reports The Guardian.
The family said goodbye: Then he woke up
Fell through the ice
It was Samuel, Finlay and Thomas who were initially out on the ice to feed the birds.
Finlay had fallen through the ice first, whereupon his cousin Thomas jumped in to save him. When he did not succeed in this alone, Samuel had also thrown himself in to help. At once, all three children were lying in the cold ice water, the newspaper writes further.
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Ten-year-old Jack Johnson first came running down to the frozen lake after hearing the screams of the other boys. According to The Guardian, he tried to save those children, but died himself during the rescue attempt.
All the children drowned in the cold water.
– This is a terrible tragedy where several children’s lives have been lost. All they did was try to help each othersays crime investigator James Edmonds to the newspaper.
He says that the children were found in the water approx. half an hour after the terrible tragedy took place. The frost and the depth of the lake meant that they were unable to reach the children at first.
To hospital after trend treatment
– Damn it
– All were sent to hospital, where they were declared dead, he says further, and adds that the children probably suffered cold shock in their bodies.
– There was nothing more we could do for them.
An entire community is in shock and grief after the tragic event. Several describe the children as “loving, good and kind young people who had their whole lives ahead of them”.
– We will always miss your laughter. This is too damned, writes a family member on a memorial page a family member has created.
“They followed their hearts and risked their lives to save each other. It is heartbreaking, beautiful – and at the same time absolutely terrible,” writes another.
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2023-07-09 09:50:03
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