Police divers have retrieved the physique of a person who didn’t resurface after leaping right into a river at a well-liked 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 advised 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 lady for minor accidents, a NSW Ambulance spokesman stated. She was not transferred to hospital.
In a separate incident, a lady died following a ship crash in Sydney’s north-west on Sunday.
Emergency providers have been known as to a ship ramp on Pitt City Ferry Street, Wilberforce simply after 9pm following reviews {that a} boat had crashed into the riverbank.
NSW Ambulance paramedics handled a lady – believed to be aged in her thirties – however she died on the scene.
A 38-year-old man sustained minor accidents and was taken to Westmead Hospital for obligatory testing.
Earlier on Sunday, police resumed a seek for a person in his 60s who was swept into the ocean whereas rock fishing with a bunch at Fingal Bay on Port Stephens on Saturday morning.