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Couple drowns while trying to save their daughter from a dangerous rip current at the beach
A couple, Dr Mohammad Swapan, 44, and Dr Sabrina Ahmed, 40, drowned while attempting to rescue their youngest daughter from a powerful rip current at Conspicuous Cliff Beach, near Walpole in Western Australia.
The family, on a Christmas holiday, were enjoying the remote beach when their daughter was swept into dangerous waters on Saturday, December 28.
Emergency services arrived after receiving reports of three people in distress around 2.40pm.
A 42-year-old man also entered the water to assist the couple.
Reports from The Australian Today, say that all three were eventually pulled from the ocean by nearby beachgoers.
Beachgoers pulled the couple’s bodies from the ocean, but despite CPR efforts by police, Swapan and Ahmed could not be revived.
A friend of the couple who was among those who tried to rescue the pair was revived at the scene and remains in the hospital in a stable condition.
The couple were respected members of the Bangladeshi community in Perth, where Dr Swapan was an associate professor at Curtin University.
Dr Ahmed was also an academic who studied planning and development in Bangladesh before the couple relocated to Perth in 2011.
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