At the last second, police officers saved a completely exhausted man from drowning in the Isar on Thursday morning. Around 8:30 a.m., an emergency call came from a woman, according to which a man was in the river north of the Ludwigsbrücke, holding on to the wall by the canal and shouting loudly for help.
Police found the man in the water in front of the weir, clinging to an iron ring, shouting that he was out of strength. Two police officers jumped secured from a colleague’s rescue rope to the man in the water and rescued him via an emergency exit ladder 15 meters away to the shore. Paramedics took him to the hospital with severe hypothermia. The 54-year-old said he slipped upstream and fell into the water.