Woman and child in canoe missing – Göteborgs-Posten

After a great räddningspådrag that we began 21 o’clock were found a German woman and her daughter at 23 o’clock.

– The helicopter saw the canoe from air and a rescue boat nearby was able to take care of the two, both of which are safe, says Emilie Wallsten, communications officer at the Swedish Maritime Administration.

The woman and the ten-year girl had gone ashore and were on the beach when they were found and could be disposed of.

Save the throttle was wide from just after 21 o’clock in the White Sannar, Vänern, east of Mellerud.

– police, rescue services and helicopter looking for a woman and a child who rented a canoe for the day, says Christel Englund, deputy incident commander of the air and sea rescue center.

The woman, in 40 -årsåldern, and the child, a girl aged 10, are German tourists visiting Dalsland. At 12 o’clock, they rented a canoe, a Canadian, on the White Sannar. They would have been back at the 18th

– When they came back when it would hit the woman’s husband alarms, says Christel Englund.

The helicopter from Säve, sea rescue boats from Kålland island Amal, the watercraft from the rescue center in Amal.

Anders Eriksson, station management at the Lifeboat Amal, told TTELA the scooter is useful particularly in primary water. Just as it is the White Sannar.

Even at 21 o’clock began to light fade. The large rescue work started at 21:15 when there would be searchable light for long.

– That’s why we put as many as we could, says Christel Englund.

Anders Eriksson points out that the new sjäräddningshelikoptern have good equipment to search in the dark.

As tourists, they lost not expected to know the area very well. All the more reason for rescuers to find the woman and the child as soon as possible.

The weather forecast tells falling temperature in the night at about eleven degrees. It is expected, however, no rain.

– It is probable that the canoeists astray, and gone ashore on an island, says Anders Eriksson TTELA.

Rescue work continued with undiminished effort until the clock 23, when the woman and the child were found.