Avalon Beach drowning: Surfer, in his 60s, is pulled from the water at a popular Sydney beach

Surfer is killed after being sucked underwater and dragged onto the rocks at a Sydney beach during biggest swell in months

  • Emergency crews rushed to South Avalon Headland at Avalon Beach on Tuesday
  • Fellow surfers pulled the man, in his 60s, from the water and performed CPR
  • ‘The paramedics then took over, but they couldn’t save him,’ one witness said
  • The man is yet to be formally identified. A report will be prepared for the coroner

A surfer has drowned at a popular beach in Sydney’s north.

Witnesses pulled the unconscious man, in his 60s, from the water at Avalon Beach just before 9am on Tuesday.

They desperately tried to revive him on South Avalon Headland until paramedics arrived, but he died at the scene.  

‘About seven or eight young surfers found him…They managed to get him up onto the rocks and started CPR straight away,’ a witness told the Manly Daily. 

A surfer, in his 60s, has drowned at South Avalon Headland at Avalon Beach in Sydney’s north

‘The paramedics then took over, but they couldn’t save him.’

The man is yet to be formally identified.

Officers from Northern Beaches Police Area Command are making inquiries into the circumstances surrounding the man’s death.

A report will be prepared for the coroner.   

Emergency crews rushed to South Avalon Headland (pictured) just before 9am on Tuesday

Emergency crews rushed to South Avalon Headland (pictured) just before 9am on Tuesday

 

Advertisement



Read more at DailyMail.co.uk