Overview
- Police say visitors found the 74-year-old man unresponsive while swimming at Stellbergsee and pulled him from the water on Sunday afternoon, September 27.
- Bystanders began first aid and paramedics with an emergency doctor continued resuscitation, but the man was pronounced dead at the scene.
- Investigators currently treat the death as a suspected accidental drowning and report no indications of third-party involvement.
- The Kassel criminal police are leading the ongoing probe and have released only the victim's age and home district while they work to establish how he died.
- Stellbergsee is a former open-pit lake on Guxhagen and Söhrewald territory with depths up to about 30 meters and a recent history of fatal bathing accidents that experts say can stem from sudden temperature-related circulatory collapse.