Number of bathing deaths in North Rhine-Westphalia has fallen. In 2022, it recorded 56 deaths in swimming accidents in water bodies and swimming pools.
At least 378 people drowned across Germany last year, significantly more than the year before. in 2022 there were still 355 fatal swimming accidents. in the most populous federal state is declining, contrary to the national trend, as the German Life Saving Society announced on Thursday. The number of fatal swimming incidents in the state has fallen to 47 from 47 in 2013.