Terrible find in Bavaria: Canoeists discovered a child's corpse in a plastic bag in the Danube
Created: 05/24/2022, 05:15
By: Felix Herz
A corpse was found in the Danube: Criminal Investigation is looking for clues © vifogra / Friedrich
A canoeist found human remains in the Danube on Thursday.
Now it turned out that it was a child.
The police are investigating.
Ingolstadt – On Thursday, May 19, a canoeist found a body in the Danube.
According to the police, he was above the Vohburg barrage in Bavaria.
For a more detailed examination of the body, he was sent to Munich to be autopsied at the Institute for Forensic Medicine.
The autopsy then revealed that the human remains were the corpse of a preschool-aged child.
Bavaria: child's corpse found in the Danube
According to information from
Bild.de
, the body was said to have been in a plastic bag and was in a badly decomposed state.
The identity of the child has not yet been clarified.
The police have not yet released any information about the circumstances of his death.
In order to shed more light on this, further forensic examinations are carried out.
In order to clarify the case, the "Fluvius" investigation group was also formed at the Ingolstadt criminal police.
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Body found in the Danube: investigations are ongoing
According to the police, further search measures in the Danube are planned for Monday, May 23.
The Ingolstadt criminal police hopes to secure traces and clues that will help clarify the case.
An essential part of the measures is also to determine where the child died.
A spokeswoman for the police, however, dampened hopes that the case would lead to a quick investigation.
First of all, however, it is important to wait for the detailed search by the officials in the area around the Danube.
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