Police have confirmed that a 15-year-old boy lost his life due to a shark attack in the waters off the southern coast of Australia.
The body was recovered from the water following the attack, according to South Australian police, close to Ethel Beach in the Innes National Park on the Yorke Peninsula. Surfing is very popular in this area.
Detectives, crime scene investigators, and Yorke Mid-North Police were on the scene. The police stated that the coroner’s report is being prepared.
According to Marty Goody, a local who has surfed the area for decades, the teenager may have been swimming between 100 and 130 feet from shore, he told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
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“It’s the most open part of the open ocean; that’s the main area that gets the swell,” Goody stated.
The attack comes after a 46-year-old man was killed at Walkers Rocks Beach on the Eyre Peninsula in May after being mauled by a shark.
The incident occurred after a shark killed an Australian man, 55, in late October. Witnesses saw the man clenched in a shark’s jaws around 10:20 a.m. while he was surfing close to Granites Beach, which is located south of Streaky Bay on the Eyre Peninsula.
