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Emergency services were called to reports of a person in trouble in the West Yorkshire waterway.

A teenager is believed to have died after getting into trouble while swimming in a West Yorkshire canal.

Police were called at 14:11 BST to reports of a person in difficulty in the South Washlands area of the Aire and Calder Navigation, near Wakefield.West Yorkshire Police said formal identification is yet to take place but it is believed to be that of a teenage boy from Wakefield.It comes just two days afterPolice said he "got into difficulty" after getting into the water at Dawber Delph in Appley Bridge, on Saturday.

Both deaths came as forecasters warned of rising temperatures and the Met Office predicted the "hottest day of the year".amid a spate of drownings as people took to the water as temperatures soared.

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