Search
06 Sept 2025
Search
06 Sept 2025
Please allow ads as they help fund our trusted local news content.
Kindly add us to your ad blocker whitelist.
If you want further access to Ireland's best local journalism, consider contributing and/or subscribing to our free daily Newsletter .
Support our mission and join our community now.
To continue reading this article, you can subscribe for as little as €0.50 per week which will also give you access to all of our premium content and archived articles!
Alternatively, you can pay €0.50 per article, capped at €1 per day.
Thank you for supporting Ireland's best local journalism!
Police have found a body in the search for a missing teenage girl who fell into a reservoir from a dam.
Emergency services were called to Baitings Dam near Ripponden, West Yorkshire, at 1.17pm on Wednesday.
Underwater searches continued throughout Thursday before a body was found in the afternoon.
West Yorkshire Police said a formal identification process is yet to take place, but it is believed to be the girl’s body. Her family have been made aware.
Police searching for a teenage girl who fell into the water at Baitings Reservoir near Ripponden yesterday have recovered a body.
More: https://t.co/WPG2exoCIP pic.twitter.com/yk4J7re33c
— West Yorkshire Police (@WestYorksPolice) May 29, 2025
Detective Inspector Laura Hall, of Calderdale’s Safeguarding Team, said: “While formal identification is yet to take place, the girl’s family have been informed and are being supported by specially-trained officers.
“My thoughts go out to her family and friends at this very sad time.
“Our enquiries are continuing into the death in order to establish exactly what happened yesterday, but we do not believe it to be suspicious.”
According to the Mail Online, a relative said that the girl was visiting the reservoir with her father when she fell.
Subscribe or register today to discover more from DonegalLive.ie
Buy the e-paper of the Donegal Democrat, Donegal People's Press, Donegal Post and Inish Times here for instant access to Donegal's premier news titles.
Keep up with the latest news from Donegal with our daily newsletter featuring the most important stories of the day delivered to your inbox every evening at 5pm.
This publication supports the work of the Press Council of Ireland and Office of the Press Ombudsman, and our staff operate within the Code of Practice of the Press Council. You can obtain a copy of the Code, or contact the Council, at www.presscouncil.ie, Lo-call 1800 208 080 or email: info@presscouncil.ie.
