A man in his 20’s has died and two others have been hospitalised after being pulled from the surf at Main Beach on the Gold Coast.
Two of the men managed to make it back to shore while the third man was pulled from the surf by lifeguards near The Spit at around 4PM on Thursday afternoon.
The three men were believed to have been swimming approximately one kilometre from the surf lifesaving flags.
Lifeguards only spotted the men after a civilian ran to the lifeguard tower to alert them to the incident.
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