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Three Victorians and a South Australian lady have drowned in a lethal weekend on Australian waterways.
A 17-year-old Pakenham boy died close to Mordialloc, south of Melbourne, on Monday afternoon.
He was discovered unresponsive within the water after an in depth air search however couldn’t be revived.
Earlier within the afternoon, one other Victorian man drowned at a lake in Ebden within the state’s north-east.
Onlookers noticed the person, believed to be aged in his 30s, struggling within the water after chasing his canine at Kookaburra Level.
He was pulled to shore and brought to hospital however he later died.
A 73-year-old South Australian lady drowned at Seacliff, south of Adelaide, about 7pm on Monday.
She was pulled unconscious from the water and couldn’t be revived.
The three Boxing Day deaths got here after a 19-year-old St Albans man drowned on Christmas Day at Lorne in Victoria’s south-west.
Each Victorian and SA police say they’ll put together reviews for the coroner.
In the meantime, two younger Victorian women had been rescued in a near-drowning at St Kilda Seashore in Melbourne’s south-east.
The ladies, aged 10 and 11, had been seen struggling within the waters off the pier on Monday evening when mounted department officers got here to their rescue.
The ladies had been assessed by paramedics however didn’t must go to the hospital.
However a younger lady is being handled in a Sydney youngsters’s hospital after being pulled from a pool in Wentworth Park on Monday evening.
Folks on the scene carried out CPR on her earlier than paramedics arrived and continued therapy, NSW Ambulance stated.
A helicopter ambulance staff additionally arrived however the lady was taken by street to Westmead Youngsters’s Hospital.
Life Saving Victoria is reminding folks to remain vigilant across the water.
“Please, make protected selections every time you’re in, on or round water, equivalent to by no means swimming alone, making certain youngsters are actively supervised,” the group’s basic supervisor lifesaving companies Liam Krige stated.
-AAP
