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Safety advice after boys die in frozen lake.

The Royal Life Saving Society are urging people in Essex to not swim or play in icy lakes, under any circumstance.

The warning comes after three boys - aged 11,10 and eight - died after being pulled from an icy lake in Solihull on Sunday 11 Dec.

Police say they're still trying to work through all the details of the incident and couldn't say how long the children had been in the water before emergency services arrived. A six-year-old boy remains in a critical condition in hospital.

³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Essex speaks to Matt Croxall from the Royal Life Saving Society, and Debbie Gardner who lost her daughter in 2015 due to a water accident - she has since set up Emily's Code to educate people around water safety.

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