What a nightmare on vacation: a mother just wanted to snap a photo of her son on the pier in Zinnowitz.
The boy (2) lost his balance and fell into the Baltic Sea.
Zinnowitz - In the evening sun, a mother (34) wanted to take a photo of her son on the pier in Zinnowitz on Usedom.
Then the boy fell off the railing into the Baltic Sea - almost five meters deep.
Zinnowitz: Child (2) falls from the pier - mother panics
Out of fear and horror, the 34-year-old immediately jumps after her child.
In the impact, the mother seriously injured her foot.
According to witnesses, the mother is said to have placed the child on the parapet of the pier for the photo.
From there the boy crashed.
Eyewitnesses alerted the rescue workers, as reported by the NDR.
An emergency doctor found that the child had apparently survived the fall without injuries.
However, the mother and the boy were flown to a hospital by a rescue helicopter.
Drama on the pier in Zinnowitz
The Zinnowitz pier runs from a higher road about four meters over the beach and then into the Baltic Sea.
The accident is said to have occurred at the level of the first bridge segments that lead over the water.
According to the police, the water is not very deep there.
As a spokesman for the district of Vorpommern-Greifswald said on Friday, the incident caused a lot of attention and a major rescue operation on Thursday evening.
The mother and the boy were rescued by rescuers and taken to a clinic.
The police are not investigating the case, as a spokesman said in Anklam.
It is a "pure rescue operation".
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