Onlookers pull unresponsive man from Lake Hume near Kookaburra Point

Police had been told the man entered the waters of Lake Hume to chase after his dog, near Boathaven Road, when he appeared to struggle just before 3pm.

Onlookers pulled the man to shore and commenced CPR before ambulance paramedics arrived.

The man, believed to be aged in his 30s, was transported to hospital where he later died.

Officers who attended the scene have been advised the man may have suffered a medical episode while he was in the water.

The death follows several warnings from SES volunteers to take care in the water, saying they'd seen "too many tragedies happen over the festive period".

Last year on Christmas Day, 18-year-old Julius 'Jules' Lunanga, of Wodonga, drowned in the Murray River at Noreuil Park.

Prayers and a minutes silence were observed at a service for Lunanga on Sunday by members of the Swahili African community

Earlier this month 16-year-old Jack Bird, of Shepparton, who fell from a tinny on Lake Mulwala, sparked a four-day search before he was found drowned

In 2017, a Wodonga boy, eight, was dragged from the water at Kookaburra Point after he had gone missing while swimming for about 10 minutes.

He died at the site.

More than 240 drownings have occurred in the Murray River in Albury-Wodonga, the Wodonga Creek and Lake Hume over about 170 years, records show.

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