A 3-year-old girl drowned in the Marne on Wednesday in a sector of the river located between Saint-Gibrien and Recy (Marne).
The rescuers and the police had been alerted after the child had "escaped the vigilance of his parents", explained to
L'Union
a source close to the case.
Divers had notably been mobilized.
It was ultimately fishermen who found the body of the victim.
The body drifted
Emergency services immediately intervened and performed cardiac massage.
However, the girl could not be revived.
The distance between where the little girl was with her parents and where her body was discovered shows that the child drifted along the river.
The body of the victim was in a difficult to access area located along a railway line near Châlons-en-Champagne (Marne).
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