Man airlifted to hospital after falling into water near Richmond
The incident comes after a schoolgirl died after falling into a reservoir in Ripponden, West Yorkshire on Wednesday.On Saturday emergency services recovered the body of a girl who had entered the River Thames in Gravesend, Kent along with a boy on Friday.The boy was taken to hospital, where he remained in a stable condition as of Saturday afternoon.
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