Police call off separate searches for missing teen boy and another man off two Sydney beaches

Decision comes after six people died along Australia's eastern coastline during a horror New Year period

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Emergency services have suspended separate searches for a teenage boy and a male swimmer in waters off Sydney amid a horror New Year period on Australian beaches.

On Sunday afternoon, New South Wales police said search and rescue operations had been suspended in the search for a 16-year-old boy who was a passenger in a boat that capsized off Palm Beach on New Year's Eve. A 47-year-old man died in that incident.