It sounds very sober in the city police’s media release, and it was probably a nightmare. There is talk of a “bathing accident” at the Höngger weir. Everyone has to think about the violence of water. Four young women in two rubber dinghies had missed the exit point in front of the weir, three of them were washed over the weir in the boats, one “pulled into the water roller”. The fourth could be pulled ashore shortly before the weir with the help of passersby. In the end, nobody was seriously injured. But a helicopter was in use, a large number of police officers, paramedics from protection and rescue.
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