Sad certainty in Bingen: The child recovered dead from a river in Bingen, Swabia, is the girl who has been missing since Sunday evening. The police in Ravensburg confirmed this upon request. The two-year-old has been identified. The girl’s body was discovered by a diver on Tuesday morning shortly before the entrance to the town of Hitzkofen – a suburb of Bingen. Helpers have been searching the area for the missing two-year-old since Sunday.
“We have no indication of a crime at this point and have not initiated any specific investigations against anyone,” said police spokesman Christian Sugg on Tuesday afternoon.
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.
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 searched 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.
Editor’s note: This article has been updated several times.