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The body of a sunken man was found on a spit near the Verkiai mill on Sunday.
It is suspected that this is the cycling coach Vaidas Rimkus who broke into the water on the ice of Neris almost a month ago.
“A male body has been found. It is suspected that it is a sunken coach ”, informed BNS Giedrius Vaičiulis, representative of the Department of Fire Protection and Rescue.
According to firefighters, the body was pulled out of the water around 10 o’clock and found by members of the Lithuanian Rifle Union who carried out a selective search.
We remind you that on February 27, the General Emergency Center received a message on the 112 emergency number that a man was submerged in ice in the Neris River in Vilnius, on Meškeriotojų Street.
Along with him, a woman broke in, but managed to escape, and V. Rimkai, who was born in 1977, was carried under the ice by a stream.
The Vilnius County Fire and Rescue Force was dispatched to the scene at that time, and information about the incident was handed over to the Vilnius Ambulance Station and the Vilnius County Police Chief Commissariat. Rescue teams were looking for a man drowned under the ice.
It later became clear that cycling coach V. Rimkus had drowned. This was announced by the Top Team Cycling association on its Facebook account. Unite the mountain biking enthusiasts. “Sad news for the entire cycling community: in Nery, while trying to save his pet from the water, coach Vaidas Rimkus drowned. Condolences to family and relatives”, this time it was written on my facebook account.
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