“Unfortunately, we must say that this long holiday weekend has turned out to be quite tragic for the rescue service. According to the latest news from Wednesday morning, seven bodies have already been recovered from bodies of water over the weekend," says Ilmārs Pūce, the on-duty operations officer at the Operational Management Division of the State Fire and Rescue Service (VUGD).
On June 23, around 1:30 p.m., rescuers received a call to the Penkule Parish in the Dobele Municipalit...