The lifeless body of a man in his sixties, a recreational fisherman, was found on Sunday near Portsall (north Finistère), we learned on Sunday evening from the Maritime Prefecture of the Atlantic.
Early Sunday morning, a witness alerted the emergency services after observing that a wooden dinghy had just run aground in the rocky sector of Karreg Cros with no one on board, said the maritime prefecture.
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At around 8:30 am, the victim had been located and first aid had carried out cardiac massage. "At 9:11 am, the maritime SMUR doctor was hoisted by (the helicopter) Dragon 29 on the rock but could only note the death of the man in his sixties", indicates the press release from the maritime prefecture, specifying that a judicial inquiry has been opened