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Terrible accident at a quarry lake: young people rescue a drowned man - but the help comes too late

2022-06-27T03:44:35.808Z


Terrible accident at a quarry lake: young people rescue a drowned man - but the help comes too late Created: 2022-06-27 05:31 By: Magnus Reitinger The Raistinger Baggersee was the scene of a tragic swimming accident on Saturday afternoon. Photo: schregle (archive) © schregle (archive) Tragic swimming accident at the lake in Raisting: A 77-year-old man suddenly went under while swimming on Satu


Terrible accident at a quarry lake: young people rescue a drowned man - but the help comes too late

Created: 2022-06-27 05:31

By: Magnus Reitinger

The Raistinger Baggersee was the scene of a tragic swimming accident on Saturday afternoon.

Photo: schregle (archive) © schregle (archive)

Tragic swimming accident at the lake in Raisting: A 77-year-old man suddenly went under while swimming on Saturday afternoon.

Raisting – Dramatic scenes took place on Saturday afternoon at Raistinger Baggersee.

A 77-year-old local was swimming in the lake with his 75-year-old wife at around 3:10 p.m. when he suddenly could no longer stay on the surface of the water without external influence and went under.

Raisinger Baggersee: Two 13-year-olds saved the man

Two 13-year-old boys, who were nearby with a stand-up board and were called by the woman, "courageously dived for the man immediately and after a few minutes were able to pull him back to the surface of the water," according to the police report .

Meanwhile, other bathers made an emergency call, whereupon the integrated control center alerted the rescue service and a rescue helicopter with emergency doctors to the lake.

"Due to the poor local conditions," according to the Weilheim Police Inspectorate, the crew of the helicopter was roped off at the bathing area.

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Swimming accident at the quarry lake: the crew of the rescue helicopter was abseiled

In the meantime, the young helpers on site had already brought the casualty ashore with the stand-up board "and, under telephone guidance from the integrated control center, began the resuscitation measures, which were finally successfully continued by the emergency doctors," as the press report says of the police headquarters in Upper Bavaria South.

The man was taken to a nearby hospital by ambulance for further treatment, but he died there on Saturday evening, despite the best efforts of the helpers and doctors, as a result of the swimming accident.

Swimming accident at the quarry pond: The cause was probably health problems

As is usual in such cases, the Weilheim Criminal Police Inspectorate took over the investigation to clarify the cause of death.

Investigators are currently assuming that the man's health problems led to the accident.

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The two emergency doctors on site, as well as the police, expressly praised the “behaviour and level-headed intervention” of the first responders – especially the two 13-year-old boys.

You can find more current news from the Weilheim-Schongau district at Merkur.de/Weilheim.

Source: merkur

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