Overview
- The rowing boat hit the anchor chain of a moored tanker near Cologne-Mülheim at river kilometer 691 and flipped, throwing five people into the water.
- A rowing club member spotted the distress and alerted the water police.
- Officers reached the scene with a patrol boat and pulled all five on board to safety.
- Cologne’s fire brigade moved the group onto a fire boat and took them to the fireboat station for care.
- One woman sustained minor injuries and went to a hospital for outpatient treatment, while police secured the boat and towed it to the Cologne-Mülheim harbor as they investigate the cause.