A man has died in hospital after being pulled from the water at North Wollongong beach earlier today.
About 8.45am today (Saturday 12 December 2020), emergency services responded to reports that a man had collapsed after being assisted from the water by lifeguards.
NSW Ambulance Paramedics and local lifeguards performed CPR on the 48-year-old man. He was then taken from the beach to Wollongong Hospital, where he later died.
The man is yet to be formally identified. A report will be prepared for the coroner.
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