A police diver prepares to recover the body of a 53-year-old man. Blainey Woodham
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Police divers in search for body
POLICE are investigating the death of a man after his car plunged into the Tweed River.
The incident occurred Thursday afternoon off the Old Ferry Road at Oxley Cove.
A New South Wales Police spokesman said police will prepare a report for the coroner.
“Just after 5pm yesterday a car was reported to be submerged in the Tweed River at Terranora,” the spokesman said.
“Police divers and local police today (Friday) recovered the body of a 53-year-old man inside the vehicle,” he said.
“Police are not treating the death as suspicious.”
Forensic investigators from Lismore and police divers from Sydney were at the scene yesterday.
