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A teenage boy has drowned in a lake during a post-wedding swim with his family in front of horrified holidaymakers.
The 17-year-old was trying to swim across Lake Nagambie, in Victoria's Goldfields region, about 5pm on Saturday when he got into difficulty.
Victoria Police said some of the boy's friends and local police officers tried to pull him to safety before they lost sight of him.
The body of a 17-year-old boy has been taken from Lake Nagambie in Victoria
The police and State Emergency Service personnel were unable to locate him during a late-night search on Saturday.
But the search resumed on Sunday morning and rescue divers pulled the boy's body from the lake about 9am.
Family and friends held each other as the boy's body was driven away from, the Herald Sun reported.
The family is understood to have been at a wedding at a venue overlooking the lake with access to the water.
'I heard a scream and I said that is not a good sign,' witness Janine Widgery said. 'As a mum you just know it was a chilling scream. It is very sad.'
She said people were distraught at the caravan park on Sunday.
'Everyone has been walking past saying how sad it is for a teenager to have died,' she said.
