A person was missing in Saxony for ten days after being swept away by the masses of water.
Now there is a sad certainty: the body of the 53-year-old policeman has been found.
Jöhstadt - Severe storms caused chaos in parts of Germany in July.
The federal states of North Rhine-Westphalia, Rhineland-Palatinate and Bavaria were hit worst.
A total of 170 people died from the floods in western Germany.
Now there was also a tragic death in Saxony.
The body of a person missing for several days was found.
Plunged into floods during a storm: Police officer missing for days - now there is sad certainty
The 53-year-old man, who, according to information from
Bild.de,
was a police officer, was swept away by a flash flood on July 13 in the Steinbach district of Jöhstadt in the Ore Mountains.
On the night of Wednesday, July 15, emergency services and colleagues spent hours looking for the person who had been missing for ten days.
The search was initially unsuccessful.
Now, however, there is a sad certainty: As the Chemnitz Police Department announced on Friday evening, the 53-year-old's body was found.
A police spokesman told
Bild.de
that the body of the missing person was discovered on Friday on the banks of the Preßnitz near the valley road between Boden and Niederschmiedeberg.
According to the news portal, the deceased policeman supposedly wanted to secure his property from the masses of water when he apparently lost his footing in a curve and was swept away by the masses of water.
His neighbors are said to have tried in vain to save him.
Storm in Germany: Terrible fate after a flood disaster
A team of doctors from Munich also met terrible fates when they traveled to North Rhine-Westphalia and Rhineland-Palatinate during the flood disaster.
(
jbr
)
