Qld: Body found in search for missing fishermen

AAP General News (Australia)
04-30-2001
Qld: Body found in search for missing fishermen

BRISBANE, April 30 AAP - Searchers today found a body, believed to be one of two brothers
who went missing while fishing on the Sunshine Coast.

A spokesman for the Tin Can Bay volunteer coast guard said the body had been found
shortly after 10am (AEST).

An air and sea search resumed at dawn today for the two brothers, aged 22 and 27, who
were thought to have been washed off rocks at Double Island Point, north of Gympie, around
10am (AEST) yesterday.

A friend of the two men later found their fishing gear and clothing near rocks and reported
them missing and a search was launched.

AAP rad/sc/gmw

KEYWORD: FISHERMEN LEAD

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