The physique of a 35-year-old physician has been recovered after he drowned making an attempt to rescue a struggling swimmer on the Gold Coast earlier this week.
Police confirmed early this morning a physique had been discovered by members of the general public within the water off Mermaid Seashore in a single day.
The person was later recognized as Dr Luqman Jubair, a health care provider who had been concerned in a Griffith College analysis crew which made an essential cervical most cancers remedy breakthrough in 2019.
Dr Jubair had gone into the water on Thursday night after a fisherman observed a struggling swimmer and referred to as for help.
The swimmer, fisherman and two different individuals who got here to assist had been capable of return to the shore, nevertheless Dr Jubair was swept out to sea in the course of the rescue.
Regardless of a search and rescue mission starting virtually instantly, he was unable to be rescued.
"It's a tragic story the place a member of the general public has tried to do the fitting factor and stepped in to save lots of the lifetime of one other particular person and has run into issue," Appearing Chief Superintendent Rhys Wildman stated earlier this week.