A British teenage boy has died in Amsterdam after falling from a boat while sailing with his friends.
The boy, who was reportedly not a strong swimmer, was pulled from the water of the Buiten-IJ river on Sunday afternoon after the fire brigade, police, and Coast Guard dashed to the scene.
Three fire brigade diving teams entered the water after the boy had disappeared at around 3:30pm, as trauma helicopters hovered overhead.
Rescuers located him just under an hour after he was reported missing and rushed him to hospital in critical condition.
He tragically died while in hospital, police told local media.
Police and ambulance services rushed to the Buiten-IJ in Amsterdam on Sunday after a British boy, 14, fell off a boat and drowned in front of his friends
Pictured: Church and houses on dike of Durgerdam village from Buiten IJ river near Amsterdam, Netherlands
The police are currently investigating the incident but are reportedly treating it as a fatal accident.
According to the NL Times, this was the second child drowning to occur in the Netherlands on Sunday after a two-year-old girl died after falling into the lake in the Park van Luna in Heerhugowaard.
A bystander noticed the toddler lying motionless in the water at around 5pm and carried her to the side where onlookers performed resuscitation attempts as they waited for emergency services to arrive.
First responders, including a trauma team via helicopter, tried to resuscitate the young girl once they arrived at the scene, but to no avail.
She died a short while later, with police still investigating how she ended up in the water.
It comes after another teenager drowned in front of friends while taking selfies at the top of a waterfall in Myanmar.
Moe Sa Nay, 14, was posing for snaps with her friends to share with her 150,000 social media followers when she slipped on the wet stones at the Sinywa Waterfall in on July 22.
Unable to free herself, Nay drowned as the water crashed around her at the popular tourist destination in the town of Paung in Mon state.
Volunteers and firefighters battled to dislodge the lifeless girl’s body from the rocks the following morning, on July 23.
They were spotted tying her hands with rope and yanking her out of the narrow gap.
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