Man and Teen Drown in Separate Swimming Incidents in Gelderland

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In Gelderland, two swimmers died in separate incidents in Emst and Ochten on Saturday afternoon. The police speak of two fatal accidents and call on people to pay extra attention to each other in and around the water in warm weather.

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Two people drowned in Gelderland this afternoon. A 16-year-old boy drowned in Emst, a 29-year-old man died in the Waal near Ochten. The teenager was swimming with friends in a recreational lake when he disappeared under water and did not come up again. After a search of an hour, the boy from Vaassen was pulled out of the water by divers. Medical help came too late. The man from Fijnaart who drowned in Ochten was swimming in a gravel pit in the W…

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A 29-year-old man from Fijnaart died after getting into trouble while swimming in a gravel pit in the Waal, near Ochten, on Saturday afternoon. A gravel pit is a dug hole in the ground that was created by the extraction of gravel and sand. According to Omroep Gelderland, the emergency services received a report of a ‘person in the water’ near the Waalbandijk at around ten to five. Emergency services immediately started investigating and they pul…

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An underage swimmer died in the water of the Kievitsveld recreational lake in Emst on Saturday afternoon. According to the police, the sixteen-year-old boy from Vaassen was swimming with other minors, got into trouble and never surfaced. After an hour-long search, the boy was found, but help was no longer available.