Young asylum seeker (16) seeks refreshment in Ourthe and drowns: victim could not swim | Interior

The incident happened around 6 p.m. Friday. A hiker saw everything happen. “He (Edouard, ed.) Had fun with his friends on the side of the water. Unfortunately, he fell into the water and was unable to swim. His two friends dived into the water to help him, but they didn’t succeed,” says the witness. They immediately called emergency services.

A helicopter and a dive team were deployed to find the teen. They found his body 10 meters from where he had submerged, at a depth of 2.5 metres.

“A forensic doctor confirmed that he had drowned and ruled out any external intervention,” said a magistrate from the Marche-en-Famenne section of the Luxembourg public prosecutor’s office.

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