0n that three of them had died. on behalf of everybody in the community and west midlands police i would like to pass on our deepest sympathies at this time. the tragic circumstances yesterday afternoon, so close to christmas time, and our sympathies with the families who have lost loved ones in this incident. have lost loved ones in this incident- have lost loved ones in this incident. ~ . , ., ., incident. we have seen footage that olice incident. we have seen footage that police officers incident. we have seen footage that police officers initially incident. we have seen footage that police officers initially went - incident. we have seen footage that police officers initially went into - police officers initially went into the water to help pull the children out, were the water to help pull the children out, were there members of the public out, were there members of the public as out, were there members of the public as well and how brave were those public as well and h
this is bbc news. i m ben brown. the headlines: west midlands police say three boys aged eight, ten and 11 have died after being pulled from an icy lake in solihull on sunday. some of the officers went in waist deep. one of my officers tried to punch through the ice to rescue the children themselves. snow, ice and fog cause widespread travel disruption in parts of the uk with hundreds of motorists and air travellers stranded. the government will hold an emergency cobra this afternoon on how to deal with a wave of strikes including in the nhs and on the rail network.
some too graphic not to completely blur, including of a child, of just some of the migrant deaths in the past seven months. this is a crossing area. reporter: and it s every day that you re finding bodies? every day. reporter: and then shows us a 3-year-old in area. a 3-year-old drowned monday. i was informed that he was taken out, gave him cpr, but then he died. reporter: tuesday, our cameras were there as another body was recovered from the rio grande, this time a man. yards away, dozens of migrants who had just crossed the river waited for border patrol, including two cuban women in their 20s who did not want to be identified for fear it could impact their immigration cases. how deep was the water for your daughter? she shows us, it was about waist deep, and then got emotional. when asked about children dying on the very river she had just crossed. she says, it was a tough decision for her daughter s
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