Mother and two children are identified after trio drowned on the Georges River at Lansvale

A mother and two children who died after drowning in a river have been identified.

Emergency services rushed to the boat ramp on Shearer Park off Hollywood Drive, Lansvale, in Sydney’s south west, on the Georges River at 10.15am on Saturday, following reports a woman and two children were in the water ‘in distress’. 

Haoi, 32, was pulled from the water but could not be revived and was pronounced dead at the scene.   

Following a massive water search, the bodies of her two children Mitchell and Hazel Nguyen, aged seven and five, were recovered from the water several hours later. 

Vietnamese woman Haoi, 32, and her two children Mitchell and Hazel Nguyen, aged seven and five, drowned in the Georges River on Saturday

More to come… 

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