Tweed Byron LAC police at the scene where a body was discovered at Banora Point.
Tweed Byron LAC police at the scene where a body was discovered at Banora Point.

VIDEO: Body found partially submerged at Banora Point

Tweed Byron police are investigating the death of an elderly man whose body was found floating face down in a lake at Banora Point East this morning.

Police were called to the scene about 11.20am after the man's body was found partially submerged by a member of the public in an outlet off Lake Kimberley.

A mobility scooter was also found in the water nearby the body.

Police are still trying to confirm the identify of the man who is believed to have last been seen leaving a nearby nursing home on a scooter at 8:40am.

The circumstances surrounding the death are being investigated but at this stage it is not believed to be suspicious.

 

 



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