Port Macquarie: Emergency services searching for man in headland, water off lighthouse
Emergency services are searching the headland and water near Tacking Point Lighthouse after a man was reported missing on Friday night. He was last seen at 10pm.
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Emergency Services will resume the search for a man reported missing near Tacking Point Lighthouse in Port Macquarie on Sunday.
The man was last seen at 10pm on Friday. His vehicle is parked at the lighthouse and police, lifeguards and the State Emergency Service are on scene conducting a search of the area.
About 7.45am on Saturday, emergency services were called to Lighthouse Beach.
Officers from the Mid North Coast Police District, assisted by local SES, conducted a land search of bushland around Lighthouse Beach.
Staff from Surf Lifesaving NSW using watercraft searched the ocean south to Watonga Rock and north to Shelly Beach.
The man was unable to be located and the land and sea search was suspended around 5pm.
The search will resume about 7.30am on Sunday, with assistance from Water Police from Coffs Harbour.