Man dies in hospital after canal rescue

The 39-year-old was spotted in the water at around 7.40pm on Saturday evening and the emergency services were called.

A fire service Technical Rescue Unit and Swift Water Rescue Team attended, along with two engines from Rotherham and Rivelin fire stations.

Crews swept the channel and bank in dry suits until they found the man in a stretch of water near Meadowbank Road.

Paramedics treated him at the scene before moving him to Northern General Hospital, but he died in the early hours of Sunday morning, a police spokeswoman said.

She added that the man’s death is not presently being treated as suspicious.

Police have yet to release details of the dead man’s identity, how he came to be in the canal or how he died.