Party raft with children on board crashes into cargo ship

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A party raft on the water (archive image)

A party raft on the water (archive image) Photo: dpa/picture-alliance

From BZ/dpa

A party raft and a push boat collided on the lower Havel waterway on Sunday afternoon. Two adults and a child were slightly injured.

According to the DLRG, they drove two lifeboats to the accident site near Pichelsdorfer Gmünd and rescued several people from the water. There were 16 people on the party raft, including 6 children.

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Two adults and a child were slightly injured, said a spokesman for the DLRG when asked by the dpa. They suffered abrasions and the like. Nobody got directly under the big ship. The fire brigade initially spoke of four injuries on Twitter.

A push boat cannot stop at short notice, he explained. The rescued were cared for by a DLRG doctor and handed over to the fire brigade.

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