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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Josh Payne

Tributes to two Brits who drowned while swimming near Great Barrier Reef

A father and son from Wales have drowned while swimming at an unguarded beach near Australia’s Great Barrier Reef.

Robin Reed, 46, and his 17-year-old son, Owen, from Caerphilly County in South Wales, got into difficulty in the water at Seventeen Seventy in Queensland on 13 April. A third man, an Australian national, was also rescued and airlifted to hospital with serious head injuries.

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