Four children who suffered are hospitalized in critical condition heart attack after they fell, yesterday, Sunday, into a frozen lake in the west of England.
According to the British first aid services, the children were pulled from the icy waters of the lake by rescue crews yesterday afternoon in Solihull, a city in the south-east of Birmingham.
According to eyewitnesses,a children were playing on the ice frozen lake and fell into the water.
“The children were pulled from the water and given CPR by firefighters and paramedics,” local fire chief Richard Stanton said at a press conference last night.
“Unfortunately the children had gone into cardiac arrest in the water and were connected to advanced life support during their transport to hospital,” said Cameron McVitie of the local ambulance service.
In a “critical condition”, they were taken to two different Birmingham hospitals, he added.
Their gender and age have not been specified, nor has the length of time they were in the freezing water before withdraw from the lake.
According to the police, when he arrived at the scene, he was informed that six people had fallen into the icy waters.
“Therefore after rescuing the four children we continued the search to verify if there were other people in the water,” explained Stanton. A team of rescuers would continue the search during the night.
However, “due to the temperature of the water, the age of those who fell into the water and the time they spent in (the lake), it is no longer a rescue operation”, but rather a collection of dead who may be present, he noted.
A police officer who was sent to the scene was also taken to the hospital with mild hypothermiaStanton also added during the press conference he gave.
Britain has been facing a cold wave since Friday, with temperatures below zero almost everywhere in the country and significant snowfall in places.
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