British Dad Drowns Trying To Save Sons

A British man has died while trying to rescue his two sons who were caught in a rip tide at a beach on Australia's east coast.

The unnamed 44-year-old was with his family at Burrill Beach, about 150 miles south of Sydney, when the incident happened at around noon on Friday.

Onlookers ran into the water and were able to retrieve the boys, but returned to find their father floating face-down in the waves, the Sydney Morning Herald said.

Police and paramedics tried to revive him on the beach. He was pronounced dead on arrival at Milton Hospital.

One report said the father had suffered a cardiac arrest, but others said he had drowned.

A Foreign Office spokesman said: "We can confirm a British national died on January 10 on Burrill Beach in Australia.

"We stand ready to provide consular assistance at this difficult time."

A statement from New South Wales Police Force said: "Emergency services were called to Burrill Beach just after midday, where they found a man unconscious.

"The 44-year-old was taken to Milton Hospital where he was pronounced dead.

"Officers from Shoalhaven Local Area Command attended and were told the man, a British tourist, got into difficulty after attempting to rescue his two sons who were caught in a rip. His sons were not injured."

Glenn Matthews, director of the local Surf Lifesaving South Coast branch, said it was "a sad end".

"The message here is to please swim between the flags of patrolled beaches and learn to identify rips and currents and how to escape one," he told The South Coast Register.

It was the second drowning on the beach in two months, after a Filipino national died there in December.

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