{"id":668921,"date":"2026-07-02T01:13:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T01:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/668921\/"},"modified":"2026-07-02T01:13:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T01:13:08","slug":"student-drowns-in-river-wye-while-on-duke-of-edinburghs-award-trip-to-wales-wales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/668921\/","title":{"rendered":"Student drowns in River Wye while on Duke of Edinburgh\u2019s Award trip to Wales | Wales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">A student has drowned while on a Duke of Edinburgh\u2019s Award (DofE) trip in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk\/wales\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wales<\/a>, police have said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Emergency services were called to the River Wye in Glasbury, Powys on Tuesday evening after it was reported an 18-year-old male had entered the water and could not be found.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Dyfed-Powys police said his body was located following a search involving a mountain rescue team and the fire service.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">A DofE spokeswoman has since confirmed the college student was on a trip as part of his DofE expedition when he died.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">She said: \u201cWe are deeply saddened to confirm that a young person has drowned while on a DofE expedition in Powys, Wales.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">\u201cOur thoughts are with the young person\u2019s family, together with all those who were taking part. We will do everything we can to support them at this difficult time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">\u201cDofE is liaising closely with the young person\u2019s college and relevant authorities to understand how this tragic incident happened. We are offering our full support.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">A spokesperson for Dyfed-Powys police said a multi-agency operation had taken place at the River Wye following a report that an 18-year-old male had entered the water and could not be located.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">The spokesperson added: \u201cDyfed-Powys police, Mid and West Wales fire and rescue service, Mountain Rescue and the National Police Air Service have searched the area since the report was made at 6.30pm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">\u201cSadly, the body of a male has been located. Our thoughts are with his family and loved ones at this difficult time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">\u201cEmergency services remain in the area and ask that members of the public stay away while inquiries continue.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Six people died last week after getting into difficulty swimming in open water in the UK.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A student has drowned while on a Duke of Edinburgh\u2019s Award (DofE) trip in Wales, police have said.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":668922,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-668921","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\/668921","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=668921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668921\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/668922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=668921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=668921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=668921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}