Police launch urgent search for boy, 11, who went missing after entering Yorkshire river

A police search has been launched after an 11-year-old boy went missing after entering a river in Yorkshire on Saturday.

The boy entered the River Don in Mexborough yesterday with police being called at 7.59pm.

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 under way 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."

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