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Nine-year-old boy dies off NSW coast in spate of long weekend drownings

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Unseasonal warm conditions and powerful swells have resulted in a record number of drownings over the Easter long weekend holiday period. Seven deaths have been reported including six in New South Wales and one in Victoria. Rayane Tamer reports from Little Bay in Sydney.
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