Melbourne, Oct. 23 -- Two men drowned after being swept into the ocean in southeast Melbourne amid severe winds that hit the Australian state of Victoria on Wednesday.
Police on Thursday said one of the two men was a British national who was surfing in extreme conditions, and the other was his friend who tried to rescue him.
Victoria Police said in a statement that emergency services were called to reports of two men in trouble in the water at Frankston Beach, 38 km southeast of central Melbourne, on Wednesday afternoon.
The two men were located unresponsive in the water by a police helicopter and winched back to shore, but could not be revived.
Australia's Bureau of Meteorology (BoM) on Wednesday morning issued a severe weather warning...