“St. Wolfgang in the Salzkammergut, ÖWR operation – person missing in water” This report went online at 3:28 p.m. on the homepage of the Upper Austrian State Fire Brigade Association. Three fire brigades arrived and a large search operation was started. Divers have now found the drowned man in St. Gilgen, more precisely in the district of Ried, ten meters from the shore.
“The person was found by the divers ten meters from the shore, at a depth of around five meters,” reports Markus Gewolf from the Salzburg water rescue service, which is responsible for Lake Wolfgang. The drowning victim is a male. The man’s age is estimated to be mid-20s. Nothing more was known about his identity at this time. More detailed investigations into the incident are still ongoing.
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