Young boy fishing with friends dies after creek bed collapses
A young boy fishing with friends in a creek bed has died after the ground beneath him collapsed, in Molong in NSW's central west on Saturday afternoon.
Emergency services were called to a property on Mitchell Highway in Molong, about 35 kilometres north-east of Orange, just after 2pm on Saturday.
Three boys had been fishing on a creek bed on the property when it collapsed, police said.
One of the boys, aged 11, was critically injured.
He was treated by emergency services but died at the scene.
The other two boys were not injured, but an eight-year-old boy was taken to hospital for assessment.
Police from the Central West district are investigating the incident.
A report will be prepared for the coroner.
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