Divers recover the body Man dies after jumping into the Limmat in Zurich

On Sunday evening, a man jumped into the Limmat in Zurich's District 1 and never resurfaced. Divers from the water police later found him dead in the water.

According to a statement from the Zurich city police, two passers-by first jumped into the river and searched for the man. Shortly afterwards, the divers continued the search underwater.

The exact circumstances and cause of death are now being investigated by the Zurich city police, the Zurich Institute of Forensic Medicine and the responsible public prosecutor's office. The incident occurred on Limmatquai just before the Mühlesteg.

The police received a report that a man had jumped into the Limmat and never reappeared.