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Surveillance tower on the beach of Travemünde (archive picture): Large contingent looked for a child who went under
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Two people died while bathing on Saturday.
A ten-year-old girl drowned in the Baltic Sea off Travemünde.
In a lake in Troisdorf near Cologne, a 26-year-old died when he fell from a rubber island and then went under.
In the bathing accident on the Baltic Sea, the child suddenly went under while swimming on Saturday afternoon, the police said on Sunday.
"We were looking for the child with a large contingent," said a fire department spokesman.
Divers of the fire brigade, emergency services of the German Society for Rescue of Shipwrecked People (DGzRS) and the German Life Rescue Society (DLRG) were looking for the ten-year-old.
A rescue helicopter was also used.
At around 6 p.m., firefighters found the girl's lifeless body in the water.
The rescue workers were still trying to revive the child.
The ten-year-old family was given pastoral care, it said.
Non-swimmer capsizes with a bathing island
The other fatal swimming accident occurred during an excursion with an inflatable bathing island in Lake Rotterdam in Troisdorf near Cologne.
A 26-year-old drifted out onto the lake with two other men on Saturday, where they capsized with the rubber island for an initially unexplained cause and fell headlong into the water, the police said.
The man went under as a non-swimmer, appeared briefly once and then disappeared.
The other two friends secured each other and, according to the information, just got ashore.
You were unharmed.
A companion observed the accident from the beach and alerted the emergency services, who could only rescue the man dead.
Boy falls from a height of five meters into the shallow shores of Lake Constance
There was also an accident on Lake Constance.
A woman there saved a boy from drowning.
The nine-year-old climbed a tree in Constance and fell about five meters into the water.
It was only a meter deep at the point, and there were concrete blocks in it, the police in Göppingen said.
The boy then lay unconscious with his face in the water.
A 31-year-old rushed to his aid and ventilated him, which brought him back to consciousness.
Together with other first aiders who had rushed up, she brought him ashore.
A rescue helicopter flew the boy to the hospital.
The police were initially unable to provide any further information about his health.
mmq / dpa / AFP