{"id":562866,"date":"2026-05-02T19:10:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T19:10:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/562866\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T19:10:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T19:10:16","slug":"teenager-who-died-in-dumfries-river-incident-had-just-celebrated-18th-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/562866\/","title":{"rendered":"Teenager who died in Dumfries river incident had just celebrated 18th birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A teenager who died in an incident in a river in Dumfries on Thursday night had just celebrated his 18th birthday. <\/p>\n<p>Emergency services were alerted to a person in the River Nith near the Kingholm Road area at around 6.50pm.<\/p>\n<p>A search of the water was carried out, and Benjamin Glen\u2019s body was recovered.<\/p>\n<p>The teenager, from Dumfries, had just turned 18 last weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Detectives are not treating the death as suspicious. A report is due to be submitted to the Procurator Fiscal.<\/p>\n<p>STV News is now on WhatsApp<\/p>\n<p>Get all the latest news from around the country<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029VaCESJzKgsNvKKNOYO2r\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">      Follow STV News <\/a>Follow STV News on WhatsApp<\/p>\n<p>Scan the QR code on your mobile device for all the latest news from around the country<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/whatsapp-qr.png\" alt=\"WhatsApp channel QR Code\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A teenager who died in an incident in a river in Dumfries on Thursday night had just celebrated&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":562867,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-562866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=562866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562866\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/562867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=562866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=562866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=562866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}