Knokke-Hesit: Believing to See a Person Drowning, a Man Warns the Emergency Services

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"It was in fact a false alarm," said the local police. ...

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Early this morning, a search was conducted in Knokke-Heist for a drowning person. An 18-year-old young man who was cycling home after going out thought he had seen a drowning person. He dove into the water to look for the drowning person, but he eventually had to go to the hospital himself for a check-up. The man appeared to be under the influence. A helicopter and rescue boat were used to search for the alleged drowning person, but the search w…

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A night out in Knokke-Heist turned into a major search operation at sea on Saturday morning. When a group of teenagers were heading home, one of them thought he saw a drowning person in the sea off Duinbergen. The young man, an adult from Ghent, jumped into the water himself and was eventually taken to hospital. He turned out to be under the influence.