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A man died mowing the lawn in Saxony-Anhalt.
According to media reports, the 34-year-old was in Kremkau in the Stendal district with a small tractor with an attached mower on a meadow.
The incident happened on Wednesday.
In doing so, he got too close to the bank of a pond, causing the machine to tip over.
The man also got under water and was apparently trapped by the tractor.
Witnesses saved the 34-year-old from the pond.
However, resuscitation measures by an emergency service called failed.
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