Firefighters and divers use boats to search for two children.
A police helicopter is circling in the air.
Now there is a sad certainty.
Hanover - Two boys died on a quarry pond in Hanover (Lower Saxony).
With a large contingent, the fire brigade was looking for the children.
On Sunday afternoon, divers were only able to recover the bodies of the two from the Laher pond, reports the
Hannoversche Allgemeine
(behind the payment barrier).
Hanover: Divers recover the bodies of two boys in the Laher pond
The fatalities are therefore an eight and a nine-year-old boy.
According to the fire department, they wanted to get a ball out of the water.
Witnesses had observed how the two with rolled up trousers had looked for a ball in the Laher pond.
Hanover: Rescue workers are looking for missing people in Laher Teich
A ten-year-old girl got help after the two boys disappeared.
She is said to have played ball with the boys on Sunday on the banks of the Laher pond.
According to a spokesman, the children's shoes and jackets were still on the bank.
The Laher Teich is a quarry pond in the Lahe district.
The water in the north of Hanover is a fishing water.
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