Daniel, 5, is third person pulled from Thames in 2 days

Tragedy as lad drowns after sneaking out

- SASKIA ROWLANDS

THE five-year-old boy who died in the Thames was the third person to be found dead in the river in the space of 48 hours.

Little Daniel Alaby was pulled from the water just before 6.30pm on Friday, less than an hour after vanishing from his home.

Police gave him CPR before paramedics rushed him to hospital, where he was later pronounced dead.

Just over a day and a half earlier, in the early hours of Thursday, a man died when his car entered the water in Battersea, south-west London.

And just after lunchtime on Friday, another body was recovered from the river near Westminster Bridge.