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Emergency services find lifeless person in scree field

Police and mountain rescue teams are involved in a large-scale search with a helicopter. A 60-year-old Austrian man has been missing since Monday.

Police helicopter finds lifeless person in scree in the Chiemgau Alps. Investigators assume that it...
Police helicopter finds lifeless person in scree in the Chiemgau Alps. Investigators assume that it is a 60-year-old man from Austria who has been reported missing. (symbolic image)

Chiemgau Alps - Emergency services find lifeless person in scree field

A police helicopter discovered a lifeless person in a meadow at Berg Hochstaufen in the Chiemgauer Alps (Berchtesgadener Land district). Police and mountain rescue teams searched around Piding for an Austrian man reported missing since Monday in Oberndorf near Salzburg, according to the police statement. His car was found at a hiking parking lot in Piding on Wednesday. It was assumed that the lifeless person was the missing man, the statement continued. The rescue operation by the police helicopter lasted in the afternoon.

The location of the lifeless person was in the scenic Berchtesgadener Land district, which is part of Bavaria. The Austrian man reported missing was suspected to be in Upper Bavaria, specifically near Salzburg in Oberndorf. The operational force involved in the search included local police and mountain rescue teams. The police helicopter, a crucial tool in the operation, was dispatched to the Alps, specifically Berg Hochstaufen in the Chiemgauer Alps. Despite the emergency, the rescue operation was successfully carried out in the afternoon.

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