A seven-year-old child and his father sank on Monday in Bornheim while bathing in the Rhine. Rescue workers found the child after an hour and the thirty-six-year-old after another 40 minutes in the water and resuscitated them, as a spokesman for the fire department described in the evening. They were taken to the hospital. Whether they survived the incident was not yet clear in the evening. Previously, other media reported.

Accordingly, two four and seven-year-old children had bathed in the water in the Bornheim district of Hersel. The two non-swimmers got into trouble, whereupon their father – also a non-swimmer – jumped after them to save them. The four-year-old child made it back to the shore on his own, but the older sibling and father went under. Relatives called the emergency call from the shore.

A large contingent of 170 rescue workers from the fire brigade, the German Life Saving Society (DLRG) and the water rescue service as well as rescue workers from the air searched for the two. The relatives on the shore had to be cared for after the incident.