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Caught in a strong current: Ukrainian border guards rescued a Hungarian teenager on the Tisza River

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Ukrainian border guards rescued a 17-year-old citizen of Hungary who was carried to the Ukrainian bank by the strong current of the Tisza. Another 20-year-old young man, unfortunately, drowned; his body was found by Hungarian colleagues.

Caught in a strong current: Ukrainian border guards rescued a Hungarian teenager on the Tisza River

Ukrainian border guards rescued a Hungarian teenager on the Tysa River, who was carried to the Ukrainian bank by a strong current, the State Border Guard Service reported on Tuesday, UNN writes.

Border guards of the Mukachevo detachment rescued a 17-year-old Hungarian citizen, who was carried to the Ukrainian bank by the strong current of the Tysa River

- the SBGS reported.

Hungarian colleagues reported two young men being carried by the water – a border guard boat immediately set out for the search. The boy was provided assistance and returned to his homeland.

"It has now become known that Hungarian border guards, for their part, found the body of a 20-year-old Hungarian citizen. Unfortunately, he could not be saved," the statement reads.