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German Rescue Teams End Multiple Water Emergencies As Investigations Begin

Search operations have ended to allow authorities to focus on forensic investigations.

Overview

  • A large multi-agency search on Berlin’s Tegeler See was suspended after rescuers recovered one swimmer and deemed the other beyond hope of survival.
  • In Munich, firefighters freed a driver from a vehicle stranded in Riemer See and he remains hospitalized under psychiatric care while police conduct blood and drug tests.
  • On the Rhine near Rodenkirchen, rescuers recovered a 47-year-old man deceased and a separate Flaucher/Isar search located a missing 23-year-old alive but disoriented by alcohol.
  • Authorities secured and removed a runaway coach at Pflegersee as police investigate its cause, and ordnance teams safely retrieved a phosphor grenade from the Lech river in Augsburg.
  • Police and medical examiners have opened probes into potential impairment, negligence or technical failures and continue routine bathing-water checks with public safety warnings.