Elderly man drowns after trying to retrieve football from a river

A 63-year-old man has died in the Czech village of Bílovice nad Svitavou after attempting to retrieve a football kicked into a river by his grandson. Fire-fighters and medical personel arrived on the scene shortly after the man fell into the water, but the man was declared dead at the scene. Later, they pointed out that the stretch of river in which the man died was neither particularly deep nor fast-flowing. The family of the man, including his 9 and 11-year old grandsons are receiving counselling from the authorities.