A woman and a teenager were swept away in the Rhine near Hohentengen on Sunday. They have been missing ever since. Now a body has been washed ashore.
A woman and a teenager have been missing in the Rhine on the German-Swiss border since Sunday – now a body has been found. It was washed up on the bank in the area of Reckingen, a district of Küssaberg, on Wednesday afternoon, the police announced. In all probability it is the missing 15-year-old, they said. However, her identity has not yet been clearly established. The investigation is ongoing. The search is to continue in the next few days.
On Sunday evening, a 29-year-old and a 15-year-old drowned in the Rhine near Hohentengen. According to the police, neither of them can swim. A German-Swiss search operation has been underway since then. Küssaberg in Baden-Württemberg is located in the far south of Germany, right on the border with Switzerland.
According to an earlier police report, six people were on the bank of a tributary of the Rhine on Sunday evening. All of them were non-swimmers. According to current investigations, the group went too far into the water, lost their footing and was pulled into the Rhine by the current. Family members rushing to help were able to rescue four of the six people from the water.
