Numerous emergency services searched for a missing 16-year-old in the Elbe for several hours on Sunday in Hamburg – initially without success. “Several witnesses saw that he went under and did not reappear,” said a police spokesman for the German Press Agency.
A helicopter, numerous boats from the police and fire brigade, the German Life Saving Society (DLRG), divers and an emergency doctor were on site. According to the police, the emergency services were alerted at 3:53 p.m. According to the police situation service, the search was called off after about three hours around 7:00 p.m. Nobody was found. It was unclear in the evening whether the search would continue on Monday.
The 16-year-old was on the Falkensteiner Ufer with a friend, said a police spokesman. A crisis intervention team is on site. “We had running water at the time of the operation, now the tide has changed,” said an operations manager shortly before 6 p.m. “We are currently deployed with three diving teams and are also searching with sonar devices.”
The Hamburg Environmental Protection Agency warns on its website that anyone looking to cool off in the summer temperatures in Hamburg should avoid the Elbe. Swimming there is very dangerous.
