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Strinesdale Reservoir(Image: Google Maps)<\/p>\nTragedy at Strinesdale Reservoir in OldhamStrinesdale Reservoir(Image: Google Maps)<\/p>\n
The body of a woman was recovered from a reservoir in Greater Manchester yesterday.<\/p>\n
Emergency services attended Strinesdale Reservoir, situated on the A62 between Oldham<\/a> and Delph, at around 4pm after reports of a woman ‘getting into difficulty’ in the water.<\/a><\/p>\n A rescue operation was launched<\/a> with the area, off Waterworks Road, being sealed off.<\/p>\n The fire service’s specialist water incident unit was drafted in.<\/p>\n Never miss a story with the MEN’s daily Catch Up newsletter – get it in your inbox by signing up here<\/a><\/p>\n Sadly, a woman’s body was later recovered, at around 6.25pm, Greater Manchester Police<\/a> confirmed in an update shared this morning (Monday).<\/p>\n “Emergency services responded to an incident at Strinesdale Reservoir at around 4:50pm yesterday (Sunday 17 August 2025) after reports of a woman getting into difficulty in the water,” a force spokesperson said.<\/p>\n “Sadly, the body of a woman was recovered.<\/p>\n Join the Manchester Evening News WhatsApp group HERE<\/a><\/p>\n “There are no suspicious circumstances surrounding her death.”<\/p>\n No further details about the woman or the circumstances have yet been disclosed.<\/p>\n —<\/p>\n For the latest stories and breaking news visit manchestereveningnews.co.uk<\/a>.<\/p>\n Get the latest headlines, features and analysis that matter to you by signing up to our various Manchester Evening News newsletters here.<\/a><\/p>\n You can also get all your favourite content from the Manchester Evening News on WhatsApp. Click here<\/a> to stay up to date with the latest.Follow us on X @mennewsdesk<\/a> for all the latest stories and updates on breaking incidents from across the region and beyond, as well as on our Facebook page here<\/a>.If you prefer reading our stories on your phone, consider downloading the Manchester Evening News app here,<\/a> and our newsdesk will make sure every time an essential story breaks, you’ll be the first to hear about it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tragedy at Strinesdale Reservoir in OldhamStrinesdale Reservoir(Image: Google Maps) The body of a woman was recovered from a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":75141,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[38587,2847,49,50,2438,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-75140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-delph","tag-greater-manchester-police","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-oldham","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75140","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=75140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75140\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}