Two teenage boys die in water as heatwave drowning toll reaches 11

As Britain endured its hottest May since records began, the relief that open water seemed to offer proved fatal for at least eleven people, among them several teenagers drawn to ponds, rivers, and lakes by temperatures exceeding 35 degrees Celsius. Two boys — aged 14 and 15 — died in separate incidents on Wednesday alone, their deaths part of a pattern that unfolded across England and Wales as the heatwave stretched into its sixth consecutive day above 30 degrees in some regions. The young are often the most vulnerable in such moments, not from indifference to danger but from an incomplete rec