A youngster who disappeared whereas swimming in a NSW river has tragically drowned with police divers discovering the boy’s physique after a four-hour search.
Emergency companies have been known as to the Hawkesbury River at Windsor, north-west of Sydney, about 12pm on Wednesday after the alarm was raised when witnesses seen he was lacking.
Onlookers scanned the river however the boy didn’t resurface, sparking a serious police search effort which situated a physique about 4.20pm.
The world is standard with household teams for picnics, leisure swimming and boating with the boy understood to have been there with a bunch of a number of folks.
NSW Police led the search after a teenage boy was reported lacking whereas swimming within the Hawkesbury River in NSW (pictured)
Specialist SES crews assisted police together with PolAir helicopter crews (pictured)
Divers (pictured) scoured the water for 4 hours earlier than {the teenager} was ultimately discovered
The particular person recovered from the water is but to be formally recognized however is believed to be the identical teenager.
‘A search of the river commenced with help from specialist police,’ a NSW Police spokesperson mentioned .
‘The SES and Toll NSW Ambulance Aeromedical service attended as effectively.’
Windsor is a city of about 1,800 folks that includes many historic buildings as one of many earliest websites of British settlement in Australia.
The Hawkesbury River at Windsor and Wisemans Ferry is without doubt one of the top-10 river drowning places round Australia, in line with Royal Life Saving.
‘I understand how harmful the river might be,’ Liz Pratt, a member of the Windsor Paddlesports Membership, beforehand informed the Hawkebsury Gazette.
‘Numerous households and youngsters, and grown males, they take a look at the river and suppose it is calm – however there are eddies… in addition to particles below the water, sturdy currents, and the river is wider than lots of people suppose,’ she mentioned.
The demise will not be being handled as suspicious and a report shall be ready for the coroner.
The spot at Windsor, north-west of Sydney, is standard for picnics and leisure swimming
Bystanders scoured the river however the boy didn’t resurface and the alarm was raised
Search groups (pictured) pulled a physique from the water about 4.20pm on Wednesday
The particular person is but to be recognized however is believed to be the swimmer reported lacking hours earlier
