Sad find
Searching for missing girl: emergency services discover child’s body in the river in Bingen
Bingen-Hitzkofen: DLRG emergency services are searching the waters of the Lauchert using sonar
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The divers were only in the water for a few hours on Tuesday morning. Then a sad discovery: a child’s body is recovered.
According to eyewitnesses, emergency services found a child’s body on Tuesday during the search for the missing toddler in Bingen, Baden-Württemberg. The body was found shortly before the entrance to Hitzkofen – a suburb of Bingen – discovered by a diver. Helpers have been searching the area for a missing two-year-old since Sunday.
The search for the girl in Bingen in the Sigmaringen district continued on Tuesday with ten divers. The experts from the water police searched for the child in the ice-cold Lauchert River. According to a police spokeswoman, the divers came from police headquarters. The DLRG was also involved in the search with a boat and sonar device.
The sonar searches and the dives started early in the morning from the Bingen district of Hitzkofen downstream. Emergency services from the DLRG and the police also walked down the bank and searched in the bushes along the river bank.
The search for a two-year-old has been underway in Bingen since Sunday
Rescue workers and police have been searching for the child in the town near the Swabian Alb since his disappearance. Police sniffer dogs picked up a trail of the girl on Monday that led to the river. The family home is located very close to the river.
Divers had already been looking for the little one along the Lauchert on Sunday – without success. Divers were also in the water at a weir. The weir is located between Bingen and Sigmaringendorf, where the Lauchert flows into the Danube.
The two-year-old had probably left her parents’ house in her pajamas late on Sunday afternoon in an unobserved moment. Officials are currently assuming it was an accident.