Body found at Sydney’s Freshwater beach after 18-year-old reported missing on Saturday night

The teenager was swimming with two friends when they lost sight of him, while a man's body was found at a lake in Melbourne's outer east

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Rescue teams have found a man's body in the water of a popular Sydney beach during a search for a teenager who went missing from the swimming spot more than 12 hours earlier.

Police were on Sunday working to formally identify the body. At the same time, they were liaising with the family of the 18-year-old who went missing from Freshwater beach on Sydney's northern beaches on Saturday evening.

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