A young person has died in a Boxing Day tragedy at a seashore in Melbourne’s south eastthe third water-related dying in two days.
Emergency companies responded to studies that a youngster had vanished in water at Mordialloc about 4pm on Monday afternoon, with crews looking from the air and floor in a determined bid to seek out the boy.
The 17-year-old was pulled unresponsive from the water a short while later and regardless of the efforts of rescue crews couldn’t be saved.
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“CPR was commenced however sadly he died on the scene,” Victorian police stated on Monday.
It comes after a teenage boy additionally drowned on Christmas night time whereas bodysurfing with two others within the Victorian holiday town of Lorne.
The 19-year-old was one in every of three younger males within the water on Sunday close to the place the Cumberland River meets the ocean on the seashore when the trio discovered bother.
The trio had been bodysurfing when one in every of them obtained into bother simply earlier than 6pm.
The teenager, from St Albans, couldn’t be saved and died on the scene. Two different males have been taken to hospital.
A person believed to be aged in his 30s additionally died in Victoria after being pulled from a lake on the Victoria-NSW border on Boxing Day.
The person went into the water to chase his canine at Kookaburra Level in Ebden, close to Albury-Wodonga, simply earlier than 3pm.
Victoria Police stated beach-goers noticed him start to battle and pulled him to the shore.
They carried out CPR earlier than the ambulance paramedics arrived.
The person was taken to hospital the place he died.
