Source : Perth Now news
A nine-year-old boy has died after falling and becoming trapped between rocks at a popular NSW beach, marking yet another tragedy this Easter long weekend.
Emergency services were called to a beach in South West Rocks on the Mid-North Coast at about 3.30pm on Sunday, after reports a young boy had fallen and was stuck between rocks.
The boy was eventually freed after a large rescue effort, but he died at the scene.
An investigation into the circumstances is ongoing and a report will be prepared for the coroner.
The boy has become the seventh person to die in waters off NSW or Victoria since Friday morning.
Live Saving NSW has described the long weekend tragedies as the “worst” on record.
Three men died in drowning incidents in NSW on Friday, including two fishermen who were swept off rocks in separate incidents at Green Cape and Wollongong Harbour and a man who drowned at Mosman in Sydney’s north shore.
A rock fisherman was swept out to sea at Tathra – a seaside town on the Sapphire Coast in southern NSW – on Saturday.
Tragedy struck again on Sunday, when a fisherman died and a teenager was rushed to hospital after being washed off rocks in Sydney’s south.
A woman was killed after she was swept out to sea in San Remo, near Phillip Island in Victoria, on Friday. The search for her missing husband, who was also swept out, continues on Monday morning.
