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Criminal charges laid over Japanese exchange student drownings at Fraser Island’s Lake McKenzie
A school teacher and tour company have been charged with workplace health and safety offences almost two years after two Japanese school students drowned at a lake on Queensland’s Fraser Island (K’gari).
Key points:
- A study tour company, company director and school teacher have been charged with exposing students to a risk of death or serious injury
- Two Japanese students drowned while swimming at Lake McKenzie on Fraser Island in 2019
- The Coroner’s Court finalised a report into the teenagers’ deaths in September
The 16-year-old boys from Kanagawa University High School were visiting the pristine Lake McKenzie on the heritage-listed island as part of an exchange program when they were reported missing on the afternoon of March 29, 2019.
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