NSW Police say Senior Constable Kelly Foster was pulled underwater while trying to rescue an international student from China, after the latter was tipped off her lilo by a whirlpool in Mount Wilson.
Police divers have recovered the bodies of two women who went missing while canyoning in the Blue Mountains yesterday. Emergency services were called to.
An international student, 24, and a policewoman have drowned in the NSW Blue Mountains, with witnesses reporting the heroic officer was trying to save the student from a whirlpool.
The bodies of Senior Constable Kelly Foster, 39, and the younger woman were recovered on Sunday about midday after they went missing at Wollangambe Canyon yesterday.
Witnesses said Senior Constable Foster tried to rescue the younger woman after her inflatable lilo was swept in by a whirlpool, tipping her off and into the water.
But she was also swept into the whirlpool as she tried to haul out the stricken tourist.
Their friends attempted to save the pair by throwing a rope towards them but they failed to surface.
Police have revealed their heartbreak at having to recover the body of a fallen colleague who died trying to save a woman who became caught in a whirlpool.