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Königssee (dpa) - With life-threatening injuries, an 18-year-old hiker from Lower Bavaria survived a fall from a height of over 60 meters.
According to the police, the young man was out and about on Jenner in the Berchtesgaden Alps when, for reasons that were still unexplained, he fell 60 to 80 meters and came to rest in a stream.
According to a message from the Bavarian Red Cross, he had hiked with a companion of the same age who immediately notified the emergency number.
The seriously injured man was in the water for about 45 minutes on Saturday morning until the rescue workers arrived.
He was then taken to the hospital by helicopter.
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