Overview

• At Starnberger See in Feldafing-Garatshausen, a 72-year-old from Baden-Württemberg drowned after entering the water to retrieve his five-year-old grandson’s toy boat.
• Witnesses recovered the man from the lake, resuscitation attempts failed at the scene, and the child was cared for by bystanders and emergency services before being handed to relatives.
• Kriminalpolizei Fürstenfeldbruck has taken over the case and is treating it as an accident without evidence of external fault.
• Separately on Großer Präßnicksee in the Barnim district, an angler found a body in the reeds that police identified as a 63-year-old kayaker missing for a week.
• Police report the kayak capsized in rough weather and waves, and the man went under while trying to reach shore despite rescue efforts by his wife.