A 53-year-old drowned in a river in Bavaria.
The man tried to save his six-year-old son from the water, said the police in Regensburg on Sunday.
Accordingly, the boy had played on Saturday afternoon in Zeitlarn at a weir on the river Regen and fell into the water.
The father then jumped into the river.
When he couldn't help immediately, two family friends jumped in after him.
According to the officials, neither the three men nor the child were able to leave the water on their own.
They were rescued by other bathers who had been watching what had happened.
The father and son were passed out and needed to be resuscitated.
The father later died in the hospital.
The criminal police are now determining the exact course of the accident.
him / AFP