SYDNEY, Dec 30 (NNN-AAP) – Two men died, after falling in separate incidents, at waterholes in the north-eastern Australian state of Queensland.
The Queensland Police Service (QPS), said in a statement that, emergency services responded to reports, an 18-year-old man had fallen about 15 metres down an embankment of a river in Maudsland, 55 km south of Brisbane, at 6:40 p.m. local time, yesterday.
Paramedics rendered medical assistance but the QPS said, the man succumbed to his injuries and was declared deceased at the scene.
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) reported today that, the 18-year-old was using a rope swing from a rock embankment when he fell.
Hours earlier, a 55-year-old man died, after he slipped and fell 30 metres from a waterfall, in the Behana Gorge, over 1,300 km north-west of Brisbane.
The QPS said that, emergency services were called to Clamshell Falls, a popular swimming hole in the gorge, at 1:30 p.m. after the man was reported missing in the water.
He was located about an hour later, following a search and rescue operation.
“Medical assistance was rendered at the scene. However, the man was declared deceased,” a police statement said.
The QPS said that both deaths are being treated as non-suspicious and that reports would be prepared for the coroner.– NNN-AAP
