Tributes have poured in for a 13-year-old boy named locally as Reco Puttock who died after getting into difficulty in the water at a dam in Halifax

Emergency services are at Leadbeater Dam near to Halifax where the search has been underway for the boy,13, following reports he got into difficulty in the water.

A 13-year-old boy died after getting into difficulty in a West Yorkshire reservoir on Bank Holiday Monday, police said.

A 13-year-old boy has died after getting into difficulty while swimming at a reservoir in West Yorkshire during the Bank Holiday heatwave, police confirmed on Tuesday.

Reco Puttock, 13, got into difficulties in front of dozens of onlookers at a remote reservoir in Yorkshire on hottest day of year

Tributes have poured in for a 13-year-old boy named locally as Reco Puttock who died after getting into difficulty in the water at a dam in Halifax

The boy, named locally as Reco Puttock, died after getting into difficulty at Leadbeater Dam, near Halifax, West Yorkshire amid a wave of teenage deaths over the weekend

A teenager was pulled from the water and taken to hospital where he was pronounced dead

Junior Slater, 12, from Clayton-le-Woods, died after getting into difficulty in the River Ribble at Ribchester on Tuesday

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