Police investigate suspected drowning at Browne’s Beach

Police are investigating a suspected drowning at Browne’s Beach.

Police were called to the area of the Harbour Lights just after 3 p.m. today.

Police said an elderly man, accompanied by his wife, was reportedly in the water with a floatation device when he got into difficulties and started  coughing and swallowing water.

He was helped out of the water and onto the sand when he collapsed.

A lifeguard on duty along with a medical doctor who happened to be at the beach performed CPR until the ambulance personnel arrived. No sign of life was found by the EMT. A medical doctor visited the scene and pronounced death.