A 52-year-old man has drowned in a swimming hole in the Coromandel.
Police were called to the Waiau Falls, about 12km southeast of Coromandel town, about 1pm on Wednesday.
A St John ambulance and the Auckland Westpac Rescue Helicopter were also called but the man was dead before they arrived.
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