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Inquiry as boy, 13, dies canoeing | Inquiry as boy, 13, dies canoeing |
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The death of a 13-year-old boy while canoeing on a river during a school trip is being investigated by police. | |
Stewart McEwan, from the Earley area of Reading, Berkshire, died during a canoeing exercise on the River Usk near Brecon, say Dyfed-Powys Police. | |
Officers say the circumstances are still being established. | |
The alarm was raised on Saturday afternoon and Stewart was airlifted to hospital in Hereford, but he was pronounced dead on arrival. | |
Stewart had been on a week-long trip to Brecon. | |
Police have taped off two areas of the river about a mile east from Brecon. | |
His body was recovered in a joint operation between Dyfed-Powys Police and Mid and West Wales Fire and Rescue Service. | His body was recovered in a joint operation between Dyfed-Powys Police and Mid and West Wales Fire and Rescue Service. |
The fire service sent a rescue boat from its Hay-on-Wye station to assist in the operation, which began at about 1500 GMT. | |
A post-mortem examination on Stewart is yet to be carried out. |