Hypothermic, injured
Search operation: 12-year-old seriously injured under the piste
Dramatic and frightening scenes unfolded on Saturday afternoon in the ski resort of St. Johann in Tirol. A German skier lost sight of his daughter (12). She never turned up and was then reported missing! In the course of a major search operation, the girl was discovered seriously injured and hypothermic in a ditch.
"We were alerted at around 4.30 pm", explains Markus Prantl, head of St. Johann Mountain Rescue. A 40-year-old skier from Bavaria, who was skiing with his daughter in the St. Johann ski area near the Eichenhof lift, could no longer find the 12-year-old.
As the father skied over a crest, he lost sight of his daughter and thought she had continued on to the lift.
Die Polizei
He had skied downhill with her on the "Rote 2" slope at around 1.45 pm. "The girl skied about 100 meters ahead of her father. When he skied over a crest, he lost sight of his daughter and thought she had continued on to the lift," the police explained.
When the 40-year-old was unable to find his daughter, he immediately began searching at the spot where he had lost sight of her. But without success. He raised the alarm. A major search operation was launched by St. Johann Mountain Rescue with twelve emergency services, the Alpine Police and the mountain railroad.
The father had last seen his daughter shortly before 2 pm.
Markus Prantl, Ortsstellenleiter Bergrettung St. Johann
"The missing girl was finally found by the emergency services at around 5.15 pm about 200 meters below the spot described by the father in a ditch covered in water, about 15 meters from the piste," the investigators describe.
Severely hypothermic, several bones broken
The victim was severely hypothermic, not fully conscious and had several broken bones and polytrauma. The seriously injured girl was flown to Innsbruck Hospital by emergency helicopter "C4" after first aid at the scene.
According to the current state of the investigation, the victim skied over the edge of the piste for an unexplained reason, "possibly at high speed". "No third-party fault could be established," concluded the investigators.
Any witnesses to the skiing accident should contact the Erpfendorf police station (telephone number: 059 133 7201).
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