The DLRG’s preliminary tally from Friday to Sunday includes only male victims. According to the organization, seven more fatal accidents occurred on Thursday. At least eight people were hospitalized after resuscitation.
A 31-year-old man died in Lake Olching near Munich because he could not swim. Witnesses immediately alerted the water rescue service, but the man died shortly after in hospital. An 84-year-old died in Lake Starnberg – his family reported him missing late Sunday evening, and rescue teams recovered his body lifeless.
In Upper Franconia, a father rescued his five-year-old son from a swimming lake in Trebgast. The boy was unconscious; first responders resuscitated him before he was taken to a children’s hospital. At the Pöhl reservoir, police divers, a sonar boat, and an underwater drone are searching for two missing men (aged 28 and 41). They had been on a pedal boat with a 27-year-old woman, entered the water, and were swept away by the current. The woman reached the shore unharmed.
Berlin’s fire department reported hundreds of additional heat-related emergencies. Fire chief Karsten Homrighausen told the interior committee of four drownings and numerous treatments for dehydration and heatstroke.
Source: www.spiegel.de
