Water corpses in the Rhine are the two missing women
Published: Thursday, Aug 22nd 2024, 11:10
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Around two weeks after the discovery of two corpses in the High Rhine, there is now certainty: the bodies have been identified, the police have announced. They are the 15 and 29-year-old women who drowned in the Rhine near Hohentengen in the district of Waldshut at the beginning of August. They drowned. According to a spokeswoman, DNA matches also had to be made to identify the women.
According to earlier police reports, the two non-swimmers had gone too far into the Rhine on August 4, lost their footing and were pulled into the river by the current. In the days that followed, police and rescue teams from Germany and Switzerland searched for the two women. Divers, rescue helicopters and drones were also involved in the search
Three days after the incident, the body of the 15-year-old girl washed ashore. One day later, an employee of the hydropower plant in the Küssaberg district of Reckingen found the second female body in a rake. The search operation was then discontinued. The municipalities of Hohentengen and Küssaberg are around eight kilometers apart in the far south of Germany, right on the border with Switzerland.
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