Hero rescuer dies trying to save girl from Waikato River
“The attempted rescue was an instinctive display of humanity. “We send our condolences to his relatives.” Bay of Plenty Police have issued a safety warning after the tragedy, one of two incidents in the Waikato River at Taupō. Two days earlier, a group of teens was swimming downstream from the Taupō Control Gates Bridge. The group split up, and due to confusion and miscommunication, it was thought that one of them had got into difficulty. That prompted a full-scale search involving a helicopter. “Fortunately, the person thought to be in trouble was found to have already retur...
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