A SCHOOLGIRL who fell into the water at a reservoir was taking pictures with her dad while enjoying a half-term walk, according to witnesses.
The 13-year-old vanished after at Baitings Dam near Ripponden, West Yorkshire, yesterday afternoon.
Cops and emergency crews have been desperately scouring the reservoir to try and find the missing teenager but have yet to discover any signs of her.
Witnesses have described how the teenager had “a really bright future”; and that she had been enjoying a half-term walk with her dad when tragedy struck.
Sue Ferris, 80, who has lived in a house directly overlooking the parapet for 20 years, helped comfort the girl’s family yesterday afternoon after witnessing her fal.
Mrs Ferris said: “The little girl was posing for photographs before this happened. Her dad had been taking the photographs.
“It is disgraceful that there are no life buoy rings anywhere on the parapet.
“Yorkshire Water added the white metal railings on top of the stone structure some years ago now.
“But it only adds about half a foot to the barrier height and actually helps people to climb onto the wall.
“It gives them something to grip on to.
“All it is doing, is helping people to stand on the wall.”;
Mrs Ferris explained that the reservoir is typically much deeper but that recent dry weather had revealed the beach – which is usually submerged.
She said that a firefighter told her yesterday the depth of the water – where the teenager fell – was 140ft.
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