Sad certainty - Police confirm: Girl recovered dead is missing two-year-old from Bingen - no evidence of crime
Sad certainty in Bingen: The child recovered dead from a river in the Swabian town of Bingen is the girl who has been missing since Sunday evening. This was confirmed by the police in Ravensburg on request. The two-year-old has been identified. The girl's body was discovered by a diver on Tuesday morning just before the entrance to Hitzkofen - a suburb of Bingen. Helpers had been searching for the missing two-year-old in the area since Sunday.
"At the moment, we have no indication of a criminal offense and have not initiated any concrete investigations against anyone," said police spokesman Christian Sugg on Tuesday afternoon.
The search for the girl in Bingen in the district of Sigmaringen continued on Tuesday with ten divers. The experts from the water police searched for the child in the ice-cold River Lauchert. According to a spokeswoman, the police divers were deployed. The DLRG was also involved in the search with a boat and a sonar device.
The sonar search and the dives started early in the morning from the Hitzkofen district of Bingen downstream. DLRG and police officers also walked along the riverbank and searched in the undergrowth along the riverbank.
The search for a two-year-old has been underway in Bingen since Sunday
Rescue workers and police have been searching for the child in the town near the Swabian Alb since he disappeared. On Monday, police sniffer dogs picked up a trail of the girl that led to the river. The family home is located in the immediate vicinity of the river.
Divers had already searched for the little girl 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 pyjamas in an unobserved moment late on Sunday afternoon. So far, officials believe it was an accident.
Editor's note: This article has been updated several times.
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The operational force from Bingen continued their search for the missing two-year-old on Sunday, despite the news of her recovery on Tuesday. Despite the police confirming no signs of a crime, a formal investigation into the incident remains an operational priority for the Bingen police force.
Source: www.stern.de
