A TEENAGE boy has died after getting trapped in a flooded area.
A TEENAGE boy has died after getting trapped in a flooded area.
The tragedy happened between 8pm and 8.30pm yesterday in a field in Witney, Oxfordshire. The 17-year-old victim was with a group of young people when he got trapped.
A spokesman for Thames Valley Police said: “The boy got trapped beneath a concrete culvert in a flooded area.
“Emergency services attended and the boy was taken to John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford where he was pronounced dead.”
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