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A woman in Hat Yai, Thailand had no choice but to place her drowned mother’s body in a fridge to prevent it from being swept away after floodwaters overwhelmed their home. The heartbreaking scene of the woman clinging to another fridge as waters nearly reached the roof was captured by rescue workers on Tuesday (Nov 25), before they brought both the woman and her mother’s body to dry ground. In a Facebook post, one rescuer wrote: “It breaks my heart that we arrived too late. She drowned.” #thaila

45K views · 78 reactions | NSW swimmers are being warned of big swell this long weekend after six people drowned during a horror Easter period. #sls #surflifesaving #surflifesavingaustralia #beach #water #swell #surf #danger #warning #nsw #newsouthwales #sydney #7NEWS | 7NEWS Sydney | Facebook

209K views · 744 reactions | The Barbados Police Service is on the scene at Brownes beach, St. Michael by Saavy on the Bay where a man was found dead. He is suspected to have drowned. Investigations are ongoing. #LeadingOnlineMedium #BarbadosTodayNews #BTEpaper #BarbadosTodayUpdates #BTJournalism #BTCommunity | Barbados Today | Facebook

Three people, including two children, have drowned in two separate incidents in Victoria. #9News | 9 News

Police spent more than 50 days searching a lake for Ryan Borgwardt, a kayaker they assumed had drowned. Then they told his wife that they’d come to believe something different. Jamie Thompson spoke with the people involved in the case that rattled a Wisconsin town.⁠ ⁠ Read the full story from The Atlantic’s December issue: https://theatln.tc/T1O7UEBU ⁠ 📸: Caleb Alvarado | The Atlantic