SYDNEY: A suspected “massive shark” mauled a person to dying in waters off northern Sydney on Saturday (Sep 6), Australian police mentioned, resulting in a string of seaside closures.
The person was pulled out of the morning surf onto shore at Lengthy Reef Seaside however died on the scene, New South Wales police mentioned in a press release.
“A person has died on the Northern Seashores after being bitten by what’s believed to have been a big shark,” police mentioned.
Two sections of a surfboard have been recovered and brought for forensic examination.
It was the primary deadly shark assault in Sydney since 2022, when 35-year-old British diving teacher Simon Nellist was killed off Little Bay.
The earlier deadly assault within the metropolis was in 1963.
Following the most recent assault, Pacific Ocean seashores between the northern suburbs of Manly and Narrabeen have been closed “pending additional discover”.
Police mentioned emergency providers rushed to the scene following alerts that the person, who was not recognized, had suffered “important accidents”.
An unnamed surfer mentioned the sufferer had been browsing between Lengthy Reef and Dee Why seashores.
“4 or 5 surfers pulled him out of the water and it appeared like a big a part of his decrease half had been attacked,” the surfer mentioned, based on Sydney’s Day by day Telegraph.
Folks have been ordered out of the water, he instructed the paper.
“There was a surf lifesaving man waving a pink flag,” the surfer mentioned. “I did not know what it was … however thought I ought to in all probability go in (to shore).”
