A teenage boy is fighting for life after being swept off the rocks at a popular surf beach.
Emergency services were called to Coolangatta, in the Gold Coast s south, on Wednesday afternoon after reports a boy had been knocked into the water amid wild surf.
Council lifeguards pulled the youth out of the water between Snapper Rocks and Froggy Beach shortly after 2.30pm and began CPR before they were helped by NSW and Queensland paramedics, who were nearby.
A 16-year-old boy is fighting for life at Gold Coast University Hospital after getting swept off rocks in Coolangatta on Wednesday
Queensland Ambulance Service Gold Coast senior operations supervisor Adam Flory said the boy was unconscious but paramedics managed to resuscitate him.