Published 2015-08-17 18:32
A man in his 40s died after drowning at Haväng in Skåne. Even his daughter feared drowned. “It is impossible to stay alive in the water so long,” says Stephan Söderholm at Skåne police.
A man in his 40s died after drowning at Haväng in Skåne. Even his daughter feared drowned. “It is impossible to stay alive in the water so long,” says Stephan Söderholm at Skåne police.
Rescue Service received an alarm if two drownings at Haväng next Ravlunda firing range at 14 o’clock on Monday. A man in his 40s was taken to hospital.
– There were people on the beach who saw that he floated out to sea. They helped him in and began cardiopulmonary resuscitation. He is taken to the hospital in Ystad, says Claes Jeppsson, field officer at the Civil Protection League Sörf.
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Rescue teams searched after his daughter, who is a young teenager, with three boats and a rescue helicopter. The work was complicated by the strong wind. Divers could not go below the surface.
– It blows a lot and high waves. There is zero visibility in the water, says Claes Jeppsson.
After three hours, at 18:42, was canceled the search.
– We found that that this person is not on the surface or in shoreline, says Daniel Lindblad, press officer at the Swedish Maritime Administration.
The man was unconscious, , but alive when the ambulance arrived. He died later in hospital.
– We will establish a notification of a deceased person for the father and notification of missing person daughter, says Stephan Söderholm, information officer at the police control center south region.
The police assume that her daughter is dead.
– Now it’s been so many hours, it is impossible to stay alive in the water so long.
The last few days have several people died in drowning accidents.
On Friday drowned a one-year child in Umeå and on Saturday a two-year boy in Sjöbo Municipality in a pool. On Saturday, also died a woman in a bathing area in Landskrona.
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