2024-08-07 10:05:42
How lrytas.lt learned at the Fire Protection and Rescue Department, on Tuesday around 10 a.m. 20 minutes a report was received that in the town of Papilė, at A.Mockaus ch. a passer-by noticed a human body tangled in the grass.
When the firefighters arrived, they pulled the body ashore and handed it over to the police.
Šiauliai county VPK representative Dovilė Vaitekūnaitė around 11 a.m. 26 min. lrytas.lt confirmed that a human body was indeed found in Venta. She also said that she can confirm that it is the body of Irmantas Misevičius (born in 1994), who fell out of the kayak on Friday and disappeared.
“Yes, I can confirm. The body was found about 6-8 km from the accident site,” said the representative of Šiauliai county VPK.
As already announced, on August 2 around 2 p.m. 20 minutes In the Akmene district, in the Venta river, a man fell out of the kayak while swimming and disappeared in the water.
A large number of police, fire and rescue forces, and a group of volunteers were looking for the missing person. The surroundings were scouted by drones, boats, and divers worked in the water.
Officials of neighboring Latvia were also informed about the man’s search, as the river Venta, where the kayaker disappeared, is heading to the neighboring country, where it widens.
Relatives of the missing man have been searching since Tuesday morning. Volunteers planned to conduct searches in the water and from the shore, the relatives announced that they managed to agree that two additional divers and a dog specially prepared for searching for drowning people would contribute to the search.
According to preliminary data, the body was noticed in Venta by a random passerby who did not participate in the search.
Police continue to investigate the accident.
2024-08-07 10:05:42