A man believed to be in his 70s drowned during a family outing at Fingal Bay Beach in Port Stephens. He was one of two separate drowning deaths on Easter Sunday.
abc.net.au/news/two-men-die-on-easter-sunday-in-separate-nsw-drownings/102203656A Sydney man has drowned at a beach in the Hunter region on Sunday morning after trying to rescue a younger family member.The younger family member was able to return to safetyEmergency services were called to Fingal Beach at Port Stephens just after 10am following reports a man, believed to be in his 70s, was unresponsive in the water.
Just before 3pm in a separate incident, a man was pulled unconscious from the water at Killalea Beach in Shell Cove, just south of Wollongong.The Bureau of Meteorology NSW issued a hazardous surf warning for the Hunter, Sydney and Illawarra coastline on Sunday morning. "And as those waves come in, there's a lot of energy behind them and they can be quite large and powerful," BoM forecaster Gabrielle Woodhouse said.
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