St. Gilgen (Austria) – What a terrible drama! A fatal swimming accident occurred on Thursday at Lake Wolfgang.
A total of four children were out on stand-up paddles on the lake near the town of Abersee and were then blown away by stronger winds.
Because of an approaching thunderstorm, a father (41) swam out onto the lake with a friend to rescue the children and bring them to shore.
The large-scale search and rescue operation unfortunately came to a sad end
“When the children were safely on the shore, there was no trace of the 41-year-old Czech,” said a police spokesman in Salzburg about the accident.
The emergency services launched a search operation. Only after several hours of intensive searching were the man’s lifeless body found by divers from the fire service and water rescue team at a depth of around eight metres and around 15 metres from the shore.
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“As the search area could not be precisely defined at first, a large search operation was launched. A total of 40 divers from the Salzburg State Water Rescue Service and fire brigade divers from the Upper Austrian Fire Brigade were deployed,” says the Facebook page of the Austrian Water Rescue Association Salzburg.
After a search and rescue operation, the person was found and rescued by the divers in the lake. More than 100 water rescue workers, Fire departmentRed Cross and police.
