The emergency services had to fight for the life of a rescued swimmer at Pleschinger See (Upper Austria) on Thursday. The 26-year-old went down and recovered in about half an hour. This accident is reminiscent of the one in Aussee, which also did not end well.
Another drowning accident! This time at the Pleschinger See in Steyregg. On Thursday just before 5 p.m., a witness raised the alarm: a 26-year-old swimmer had screamed in a foreign language and had gone down. Eight fire brigades and water rescue services deployed with divers. At 5:23 p.m., the helpers found the missing Syrian from Linz at the bottom of the lake and brought him to the shore, where eight relatives were frightened.
There the Red Cross emergency doctor took over and resuscitated the victim, who – the emergency doctor had to stay with him all the time – came to the hospital of the Sisters of Mercy. The death was announced at 6:10 p.m. According to the family, the Syrian was not a good swimmer, but swam out unaccompanied.
Three children rescued, one Afghan dead
It wasn’t the first drowning accident this year in Upper Austria: As reported, a three-year-old was rescued from the swimming pool by his mother in Gosau on Wednesday after briefly sinking. A four-year-old was taken out of the swimming pool in Sattledt at the end of June by her father, a few days earlier in Sierning a two-year-old had been resuscitated by his parents after he fell in the bathroom. And at the Ausee an Afghan (20) – a non-swimmer – drowned.
Source: Krone
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