SYDNEY: Two elderly French tourists died Wednesday while snorkeling at a popular tourist spot on the Great Barrier Reef in Australia, authorities said.

The man and woman aged in their 70s were spotted floating in the water at Michaelmas Cay, a reef-ringed sand island near Cairns, by staff working for dive company Passions of Paradise, chief executive Scotty Garden said.

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