2.16pm: Police have just briefed the media on the continued search for a missing 28-year-old man, who went into the Murrumbidgee River on Sunday night and hasn’t been seen since.
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SES has searched the riverbank for items of clothing and is currently in the water, which is travelling at about six knots and at eight metres deep.
1pm: SES, VRA, police and ambulance are still on standby in the hopes a missing man will be found. More updates to come during the day.
UPDATE 9.30am: The search for a swimmer missing in the Murrumbidgee River at Wagga since last night has resumed this morning.
Police, the SES and ambulance crews are at the scene.
EARLIER: Police divers will arrive in Wagga on Monday morning after a man disappeared while swimming in the Murrumbidgee River on Sunday night.
Divers will join local search and rescue operations in Wagga that began scouring the waterway and its surrounds after the alarm was raised on Sunday evening.
Emergency services rushed to Wagga Beach around 8.45pm on Sunday after a 28-year-old man went underwater and didn’t resurface.
The police were joined by the Wagga Volunteer Rescue Association (VRA), State Emergency Service (SES) and NSW Ambulance’s swift water rescue team.
A search of the river and the surrounding shoreline continued through the night until 11pm.
Anyone with information relating to this incident is urged to contact Wagga Police or Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.
MORE TO COME