Teen, 17, Pulled From Danube at Varadin Bridge, Novi Sad
Passersby spotted a young man in the river in Novi Sad on Tuesday evening. He was taken to the Children's Hospital, conscious and without visible injuries. How he ended up in the water is not known.
Passersby spotted a 17-year-old in the Danube near Varadin Bridge in Novi Sad on Tuesday evening, October 13. They called an ambulance and the police, and the young man was pulled from the water and taken to the Children’s Hospital.
What is known about the rescue
According to Blic, as relayed by the portal Moj Novi Sad, citizens saw the young man in the river and immediately called the ambulance service and the police. Informer and Objektiv published a nearly identical account of the incident, but without naming a source. All three portals say he was pulled out of the water through a joint effort, but none specifies who physically carried out the rescue: passersby, the ambulance crew or police officers.
The young man, the same sources say, was conscious and had no visible injuries when he was taken to the Children’s Hospital in Novi Sad. His name has not been published because he is a minor, and it will not be published in this article either.
Varadin Bridge or Duga bridge?
The sources also differ on how they name the location. Informer and Objektiv write that the young man was pulled out near the Duga bridge, while Moj Novi Sad cites Varadin Bridge. They mean the same structure: Duga is the popular name for Novi Sad’s Varadin Bridge. The old bridge at that spot was destroyed in the NATO bombing on April 1, 1999, and the new one was built in 2000.
The sources diverge on timing as well. Moj Novi Sad says the incident happened on Tuesday evening, Objektiv describes it with the word “tonight,” and Informer gives no hour. The exact time of the intervention has not been announced so far.
What is still unknown
None of the available sources explains how the young man ended up in the Danube. The reports contain no statement from the police or the ambulance service, so it is not known how long he was in the water, or whether he fell, jumped or was brought to the river by something else. Without an official statement, no assumptions about the circumstances can be ruled out or confirmed.
The same goes for his condition after admission to the hospital. All that is known is that he was conscious and had no visible injuries, as reported at the time he was transported. Whether he was kept for treatment or discharged has not been published.
For now, everything that is known rests on media reports, because the available publications contain no statement from any institution about the circumstances of the incident.
