a Rafting Tour in the white water of the Salzach river in Austria it came to a serious accident. The water rescue warns already in front of the “fire-dangerous” wreck of the.

Update 6. August, 8.42 PM: As informed by the police, the two died in the Rafting accident, a 30-year-old German from Altötting and a 23-Year-old Serb from Burghausen. The Bavarian police was already informed about the accident. The two dead have already been released to the funeral and be transferred to Germany.

initial message 5. August: Two Dead in heavy Rafting-accident – witness discovered capsized boat

Golling/Hallein – came In the white water of the Salzach river in Austria on Monday, according to police, two people were killed. The circumstances of the Rafting accident was initially unclear. A witness had observed in the morning in the area of the Salzachöfen a capsized boat and two people in the water floating and the forces alerted.

Rafting accident in Austria: water rescuers, and firefighters in the application

First of all, had not been ruled out that other occupants were on Board. Therefore, water rescuers and firefighters searched the river between Golling and Hallein. Mountain rescuers scoured the Pass Lueg, on the banks of the Salzachöfen. The Search effort was terminated, according to the water rescue inconclusive in the early afternoon.

water rescue is an accident during Rafting: “Salzach fire is dangerous”

The Salzach river was in the vicinity of the accident at the time of “fire hazard,” said a spokesman for the water rescue. How innsalzach24.de reports, the dead a 23-year-old Serbian citizen, lives in Burghausen. The identity of the second dead is not clear, therefore, still.

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Just a few days before it came out in Austria in an accident while Rafting.