Wellington, March 12 (IANS) An Indian student who was pulled unconscious from a lake in New Zealand died Wednesday, a media report said.
Sidhant Sharma, 21, was aboard a privately-owned boat with three others on Lake Taupo in New Zealand’s North Island Tuesday afternoon when he decided to take a swim.
Around 2.30 p.m., he failed to resurface and was pulled out unconscious, the New Zealand Herald reported.
Even as the boat made a mayday call, an overseas tourist swam across to the boat and performed CPR on Sharma.
The boat then motored to shore and he was taken to a nearby hospital.
He was transferred to Waikato Hospital in Hamilton Tuesday where he died Wednesday.
Sharma was residing in Rotorua in North Island.