It is understood that they are all members of the same family
A hero schoolboy died as he tried to rescue three other youngsters who plunged into a freezing cold lake, his devastated family have said.
Jack’s aunt Charlotte McIlmurray said he instinctively tried to save the children after one of them fell through the ice. One heartbreaking note was left be a classmate of the 11-year-old victim, named locally as Thomas. It read: “To my friend Thomas. Thanks for being there for me when I was sad. “I heard that the others went in to try and rescue him. It’s really hard to imagine what those parents are going through.”
“Hug your little and loved ones that extra bit tighter tonight. Absolutely devastated for my family.” “She was a relative. She’d come down to help and met up with a younger girl who was hysterical saying, ‘My brother, my brother’. The teenage girl was trying to comfort her younger cousin and saying it was going to be alright.
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