2 killed, 6 injured in motorboat crash in northwest Germany

Two people have died and six people were injured after two motorboats collided in northwest Germany.

Police in Oldenburg said the incident happened shortly before 2 AM today on the Barsseler Tief, a river near the Dutch border.

Police said the dead a 24-year-old woman and a 27-year-old man were sitting in a motorboat that was rammed side-on by another vessel.

Warm weather has resulted in a sharp rise in drownings and watersports injuries in Germany in recent days.

At least four more people died yesterday, including a 10-month-old baby who had fallen into the river Neckar near the southwestern town of Mosbach.
 

The baby's mother, an asylum-seeker from Eritrea, attempted to rescue the child. Unable to swim, she was pulled from the river by passers-by.