{"id":469743,"date":"2026-03-11T14:13:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T14:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/469743\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T14:13:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T14:13:10","slug":"british-couple-die-after-being-pulled-from-water-at-australian-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/469743\/","title":{"rendered":"British couple die after being pulled from water at Australian beach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A couple from the UK have died at a beach in New South Wales, Australia, after being pulled from the water, police have said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Emergency services were called at around 11:10 local time (00:10 GMT) on Wednesday to Shellharbour beach after reports two people were struggling in the water.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Members of the public pulled a 66-year-old man and 64-year-old woman from the water and commenced CPR,&#8221; New South Wales Police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Police added that paramedics continued to attempt resuscitation but the married couple died at the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Foreign Office said it was supporting the family of two British nationals who died in New South Wales and were in contact with local authorities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A couple from the UK have died at a beach in New South Wales, Australia, after being pulled&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":469744,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-469743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=469743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469743\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/469744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=469743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=469743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=469743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}