https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cv2gez04807o
Apparently, according to other versions of this story, one fell in, and the other went to rescue him. Both are said to have drowned.
That canal is so shallow the water is at your waist when you stand up in it.
Nobody find that suspicious as hell?
I have no idea of this case.
But people can drown in very shallow water - it happened before and will in the future.
*Helping someone who is drowning is very dangerous.
*If they are drunk/sleepy/frozen/high/exhausted - it is easier to drown.
*If they can’t swim the panic is deadly.
Water is no joke…I’m unfamiliar with that canal, but a cubic metre of water weighs a metric ton. So if the water was flowing at all, and you add nighttime/panic/alcohol/drugs/etc it could be very easy for one to go under. The other person tries to help and gets in trouble as well, doesn’t take much. If someone swallows a bit of water by accident, it can easily create a panic situation and all thought goes out the window.
Edit: also, what’s the alternative take that you believe happened instead of this? Two homeless people were put to death by drowning? To what end?
Questions like this are why we shouldn’t have sanitized the internet so much.
When you would regularly come across videos of people drowning in your feed, you come to understand that it is easy as fuck to drown in any amount of water. It wouldn’t surprise me if someone managed to drown in an inch of water.
