Underwater search teams, helicopter and drones search for boy, 11, missing since entering river in Mexborough

Police are carrying out an ongoing search of the River Don utilising specialist resources after being called to Ferry Boat Lane in Mexborough at 7.59pm on Saturday 30 May to reports that an 11-year-old boy had entered the water but had not been seen getting out.

Officers, alongside emergency crews from the National Police Air Service, South Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service, and the Yorkshire Ambulance Service, responded and a specialist search operation remains underway.

The boy's family has been informed and is being supported by specially trained officers.

Doncaster Response Team Inspector Neil Pryce said: "We know, from witnesses and items left on the riverbank, where the boy entered the water. Utilising specialist knowledge and skills, a coordinated multi-agency operation is underway and we are doing everything we can to find this young man.

“We are invaluably assisted by an underwater search team, supported from above by the police helicopter and drones.

“This is a tragic incident and we understand that members of the public want to do all they can to help but we must ask that, for everyone's safety, only those who are involved in our operation enter the River Don.

“To give the boy and his family the dignity they deserve, we ask that people do not spectate or film the search operation.”