Police divers have retrieved the physique of a person who didn’t resurface after leaping right into a river at a preferred swimming spot in south-west Sydney.
The person was swimming within the Kentlyn Basin positioned within the Keith Longhurst Reserve, close to Campbelltown, about 3.45pm when he jumped into the water.
NSW Ambulance went to the scene.Credit score: Flavio Brancaleone
The alarm was raised when he didn’t resurface, sparking a search involving native police, SES members and officers from the NSW Police dive unit who scoured the waterway which varieties a part of the Georges River.
Police divers discovered the person’s physique simply earlier than 7pm.
Witnesses instructed 9 Information the person and his youthful sister have been enjoying with a distant management boat close to the water’s edge earlier than the person jumped off a rock into the river to retrieve it and didn’t resurface.
An ambulance helicopter and paramedics had rushed to the scene and handled a girl for minor accidents, a NSW Ambulance spokesman stated. She was not transferred to hospital.
Earlier on Sunday, police resumed a seek for a person in his 60s who was swept into the ocean whereas rock fishing with a gaggle at Fingal Bay on Port Stephens on Saturday morning.