Emergency services have suspended separate searches for a teenage boy and a male swimmer in waters off Sydney amid a horror New Year period on Australian beaches.<\/p>\n
On Sunday afternoon, New South Wales<\/a> police said search and rescue operations had been suspended in the search for a 16-year-old boy who was a passenger in a boat that capsized off Palm Beach on New Year\u2019s Eve. A 47-year-old man died in that incident.<\/p>\n A separate search for a 22-year-old man, who has been missing since last being seen in trouble in the water at Coogee beach on New Year\u2019s Day, was also suspended.<\/p>\n The man has been identified as Sushan Khadka, and police said they have been unable to find him \u201cdespite extensive land and water-based searches\u201d.<\/p>\n Coogee Surf Life Saving Club\u2019s president, Ben Heenan, last week said several swimmers, including the man, had been swept off their feet and pulled out by a rip due to large surf.<\/p>\n Sign up: AU Breaking News email<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cThree of them were able to make it back to shore. Unfortunately, one was unable to return. We immediately commenced a search.\u201d<\/p>\n In a statement announcing the suspension of the two searches, police said marine patrols would continue in the Palm Beach area and land patrols would continue around Coogee beach.<\/p>\n Sunday\u2019s announcement follows the deaths of six people at beaches across Australia during the New Year period, including a 34-year-old man who drowned at Green Patch beach at Jervis Bay, on the NSW south coast, on Saturday.<\/p>\n Emergency services were called just before 5pm after reports multiple people were struggling to stay afloat in rough conditions. The 34-year-old was brought back to the beach where first responders attempted to resuscitate him, but was declared dead at the scene.<\/p>\n A Toll rescue helicopter arrives over Greenpatch \/ Iluka Beach, where a man died on Saturday. Photograph: Matthew Abbott\/The Guardian<\/p>\n On Friday, police said a man believed to be aged in his 50s was pulled from the water at Lobster Bay beach in Shoalhaven. He was treated by paramedics, but died at the scene.<\/p>\n It came after a 25-year-old woman was found dead about 5am on New Year\u2019s Day after being swept into the ocean at Maroubra beach amid warnings about dangerous surf conditions.<\/p>\n Hours later, a 45-year-old woman died at Dunbogan beach near Port Macquarie on NSW\u2019s mid-north coast. Police said officers responded to reports the woman was struggling in the water before 3pm on New Year\u2019s Day. She has been identified as mother-of-two Melissa Austin, who operated a salon in Berowra, north of Sydney.<\/p>\n