Greater Manchester Police<\/a> later confirmed a man died and that they are currently in the early stages of their investigation. They added that despite the best efforts of emergency services, the man sadly passed away at the scene.<\/p>\n![\"Police](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/0_PHOTO-2026-05-17-10-48-49-1.jpg\")
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Police and water rescue units in attendance(Image: MEN)<\/p>\n
Police also confirmed the emergency call came from a member of the public. The man has not yet been identified, with enquiries ongoing. Anyone with information is being urged to contact police.<\/p>\n
A spokesperson for the force said: “Shortly after 8am on Sunday 17 May 2026, officers were called to Prestwich Clough, Prestwich to reports of a body in the River Irwell.<\/p>\n
“Officers attended and a man was pulled from the water. Despite best efforts of emergency services, the man sadly passed away at the scene.<\/p>\n
“Enquiries are ongoing to establish how the man came to be in the water, and we would ask anyone with information who may have been in the area to contact ourselves via 101 quoting log 725 of 17.05.2026.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An air ambulance was also scrambled to the scene Ambulances at the scene near Prestwich(Image: MEN) A man…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":967418,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8813],"tags":[748,1285,393,4884,2465,3044,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-967417","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-manchester","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-bury","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-manchester","13":"tag-prestwich","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116592158366661934","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=967417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967417\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/967418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=967417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=967417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=967417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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