Sydney, April 21 -- A boy has died after becoming stuck between rocks in the seventh fatal incident at Australian beaches in three days.
The nine-year-old boy was caught in the water between rocks at a beach on the mid north coast of the state of New South Wales (NSW), almost 400 km northeast of Sydney, at about 3:30 p.m. local time on Sunday.
Emergency services were called and local police, surf lifesavers and fire and rescue crews worked to extricate the boy, but he died at the scene.
It marked the seventh death at Australian beaches over the first three days of the four-day Easter long weekend. Of the deaths, six have occurred at beaches in NSW, with the other one in the southeastern state of Victoria.
Earlier on Sunday, a man died...