Two deaths less than an hour apart on NSW Mid North Coast beaches on Easter Sunday

In a tragic Easter weekend on the New South Wales Mid North Coast, two surfers have died in separate incidents about 150 kilometres apart.

Both were pulled unconscious from the ocean within an hour of each other on Sunday afternoon. 

In the first incident, a 64-year-old man from Saratoga is believed to have had a medical incident. He was pulled from the water at Killick Beach at Hat Head, north of Port Macquarie, at about 4pm.

Other surfers and people on the beach performed CPR until police and paramedics arrived but he was unable…