A YOUNG boy drowned at a residential property in the Launceston suburb of Youngtown yesterday.
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Distressed family and friends were seen gathering outside the home in Chestnut Road in the afternoon. Friends of the family chose not to offer a comment.
Launceston CIB's Detective Inspector Scott Flude said investigations were continuing.
He would not provide details of the incident.
Yesterday's drowning follows that of a Norwegian man in the Hawkesbury River and two fishermen on the Central Coast of New South Wales on Friday.
The last Tasmanian drowning was of a 17-month-old at New Norfolk on February 25.
According to the Royal Life Saving Australia National Drowning Report 2013 , 291 people drowned in Australian waterways over the 2012-13 financial year.
In Tasmania there were nine drownings over that period.
Of the nationwide drowning deaths, 11 per cent were children aged up to four and 3 per cent were five to 14-year-olds.
The majority of drownings occur in rivers and streams, followed by the ocean and swimming pools.