Search unsuccessful – caught by the current: man wanted to swim in the Inn

Tragic scenes took place on Sunday afternoon in the Tyrolean Unterland: A man may have completely underestimated the flow of the Inn and wanted to swim in the floods near Kundl (Kufstein district). The masses of water caught him and swept him away. Since then there has been no trace of the Syrian.

The asylum seeker spent the afternoon with his family on the banks of the Inn. At around 5:15 p.m., his brother-in-law and brother stepped into the water, but he decided to go swimming. “The Inn currently carries a lot of water and has a high flow rate,” said the police. This was the fatality of the not very good swimmer, who wore jeans: he was carried off and went under. His family informed the rescue workers.Family searches on their own.A large-scale search operation then started: water rescue, fire brigade, police and Red Cross searched for the missing person on the banks of the Inn and on the water. A helicopter was also used. But in vain. “We searched everything between the location in Kundl and the Inn power plant in Kirchbichl, but we couldn’t find the man,” said the police when asked by “Krone”. The search on the water has now been discontinued. Now you continue in the vicinity of the Inn, the family of the missing person is also looking on their own. According to the police, however, there is little hope: the Inn is currently only around 10 degrees warm, the Syrian is a bad swimmer. “He probably went under sooner,” fears the police.
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