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DLRG lifesaver: Significantly more deaths from drowning in 2023. © Uwe Anspach/dpa
Hot summer days attract many people to the cool water - but there are also dangers in the water.
Significantly more people died while swimming last year.
Hanover - At least 378 people drowned in Germany in 2023 - significantly more than the year before.
In 2022 there were still 355 fatal swimming accidents, as the German Life Saving Society (DLRG) announced.
Although fewer people drowned by the end of the last summer holidays than in the same period last year, there were an unusually high number of accidents after that, said DLRG President Ute Vogt.
“In the last three months of the year, more people had an accident than since 2017.” Inland waters such as lakes and rivers were more dangerous than the North and Baltic Seas - 90 percent of the deaths occurred there.
According to the information, 135 people drowned in rivers in 2023, compared to 105 the year before.
dpa