Plunged into the water – missing 23-year-old recovered dead from the Danube


Now there is certainty: The Somali (23) who fell into the water last Friday while exercising on the concreted Danube balustrades near the Brucknerhaus in Linz was rescued from the water by the Linz fire brigade on Thursday.

Last Friday at around 5.30 p.m. at Ernst-Koref-Promenade / Untere Donaulände there was a large-scale rescue operation because a 23-year-old Somali from Pasching was missing: According to a 22-year-old compatriot, his friend jumped onto a narrow concrete “lead-off “Lost balance and fell into the Danube.

A search was unsuccessful. On Thursday it was a sad certainty: the body was pulled out of the Danube near the motorway bridge.