Sydney woman fighting for life after being pulled from the water

A WOMAN in her 20s is fighting for her life in hospital after being pulled from the water in Sydney’s eastern suburbs.

A WOMAN is fighting for life after she was pulled from the ocean in Sydney’s eastern suburbs.

Emergency crews were called to Kooringai Avenue in Yarra Bay following reports of a woman in the water.

A passerby told police they pulled the unconscious woman from the water.

She was treated at the scene by NSW Ambulance paramedics before being taken to St George Hospital, where she remains in a critical condition.

The woman is believed to be aged in her late 20s and has not been formally identified.

It is the second such incident involving a person being pulled from the water in the space of days.

A man was pulled from the water at Bondi Beach on Monday afternoon.

Lifesavers started CPR on the man in his 60s after he went in cardiac arrest and he was rushed to hospital in a critical condition.

Both incidents follow a tragic two weeks on Australia’s waterways.

Nitisha Negi, 15, from Delhi drowned at Glenelg’s breakwater on December 10 while in Adelaide for the Pacific School Games.

A second teenager, Eliase Nimbona, 15, from Goodwood drowned on Monday afternoon at the same beach.

Eliase Nimbona, from Goodwood drowned on Monday afternoon at Glenelg beach.

Eliase was unconscious and laying facedown in the water when he was spotted by beachgoers near the jetty shortly after 4.30pm.

Several people, jumped into the water and pulled him to the shore where paramedics performed CPR but were unable to save him.

— with AAP