A father and his seven-year-old son have died in a swimming accident in the North Rhine-Westphalian town of Bornheim. Previously, around 170 rescue workers had searched for the two.
The child had been rescued from the water after an hour by rescue workers, the father 40 minutes later. The two non-swimmers were in distress, whereupon their father – also a non- Swimmer – jumped after them to save them. Relatives on the shore had to be cared for after the incident.