A 22-year-old woman died after drowning in Lake Achard, in the suburbs of Strasbourg, where an intense heat wave raged on Sunday, we learned from firefighters.
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The young woman disappeared at the end of the afternoon while bathing with friends in this lake, in Illkirch-Graffenstaden, according to
Les Dernieres Nouvelles d'Alsace
.
She sank and did not rise to the surface, according to the newspaper.
Firefighters found his body after two hours of searching.
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“It is with deep sadness that I learn this evening of the death of a 22-year-old young woman following drowning and despite the intervention of the emergency services in Lake Achard in Illkirch-Graffenstaden”,
declared the president of Strasbourg Eurometropolis, Pia Imbs.
"These periods of high heat are conducive to swimming activities and I call on everyone to be extremely vigilant,"
she added.
