A shark attacked and killed a 15-year-old boy at a remote surfing spot in South Australia, police said Friday. The marine predator struck Thursday afternoon near Ethel Beach on the Yorke Peninsula, state police said in a statement.
Adelaide’s The Advertiser newspaper quoted an unidentified Ethel Beach local as saying another surfer had paddled out to help after the boy was bitten on the leg. “Sadly, the body of a teenage boy was recovered from the water,” they said.
Police said they were preparing a report for the coroner but gave no details of the attack on the boy, who was from a southern Adelaide suburb. In late October, witnesses saw a shark grab a 55-year-old surfer in its jaws at the state’s Granites Beach. His body was not recovered. A large great white was seen nearby.
“The shark was circling them as the guy pulled the boy out of the water. There was a lot of blood,” the resident said. There were no details on the shark involved, but great white sharks are known to prowl South Australia’s coastline.
