A 17-year-old girl who bathed with friends in a body of water located on the edge of the Saône in Villefranche-sur-Saône (Rhône), north of Lyon, died of drowning on Saturday afternoon, he said. we learned this Sunday from concordant sources.
The accident occurred shortly before 6.30 p.m. Saturday afternoon when the teenager, who, according to witnesses, could not swim, was seated on a large inflatable buoy that started to drift, police said, confirming progress information.
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Unbalanced, the victim fell into the water before the eyes of several witnesses, including two men who rushed to try, in vain, to rescue her. Alerted, the firefighters found the girl thirty minutes later in the water and tried to revive her for almost an hour, without success.
Saturday afternoon, a 63-year-old woman also drowned in Côte-d'Or while swimming in the artificial lake of Panthier, in the south-east of the department. The sixty-year-old was swimming alone ten meters from a busy beach in the town of Vandenesse-en-Auxois.
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According to witnesses, it suddenly sank and disappeared. Her body was found and taken out of the water an hour later with the assistance of a team of firefighters who failed to revive her.