Man's body found, desperate search for daughter in Sydney bay
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- A desperate search is underway for a seven-year-old girl after her father's body was found near a drifting boat in Sydney's inner west.
- Police are using all available resources to locate the child, who was in the boat with her father when he was discovered at Bayview Park.
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A man's body was found near a drifting boat in a bay in Sydney's inner west. The man's seven-year-old daughter was confirmed to have been in the boat with him.
A desperate search is underway for a missing girl after a man's body was found near a boat drifting in a bay in Sydney's inner west.
NSW Police said the girl, aged seven, was the man's daughter and confirmed she had been in the boat with her father.
"Our priority right now is to locate the seven-year-old girl," Superintendent Christine McDonald said in an update.
"There is a major search operation underway and we are using all our resources from the marine area command, police divers [and] police aviation command in an attempt to locate the little girl."
The pair are from the Westmead area, and while they are yet to be formally identified, police said the girl's mother had been notified.
Just before 11:45am, emergency services were called to Bayview Park, on Burwood Road in Concord, after a passer-by, who was on a boat at the time, saw a man in the water.
Open Questions
- What happened to the father and daughter?
- Where is the missing girl?
- How did the boat end up drifting?