Search operation Missing man recovered dead at Giessbach Falls

The man missing in the Giessbach Falls near Brienz was recovered dead on Tuesday morning under difficult conditions. According to the police, a small child is still missing.

The man's death could only be determined on site, as the Bern cantonal police wrote on Tuesday. There are concrete indications of his identity, but formal identification is still pending. The search for the child is continuing.

The man and the toddler fell into the waterfall on Sunday afternoon for reasons as yet unexplained, whereupon the police launched a search operation. According to current information, they belonged to a family with two small children and were on a hike at the time of the accident.

Services from the Bern cantonal police and several members of the Interlaken Alpine Rescue Station and Swiss Alpine Rescue with canyoning specialists were involved in the search operation.

The Giessbach Falls are located next to a hotel on Lake Brienz in the Bernese Oberland.