A shark kills a woman, seriously injures another person on a beach in Australia

A shark killed a woman and seriously injured a hiker at Suku National Park Beach on Australia’s East Coast on Thursday, police said.

Experts say that a shark does not attack more than one person.

The attack took place in Comprany Bay National Park, which is known for its beach tents, fishing spots and tracks miles north of Sydney.

Beaches in the area and north of the attack are closed to swimming indefinitely, police chief Timothy Watly said.

Emergency services were called to Kilies Beach following reports that two people in their mid-20s had been bitten by a shark at 6:30 a.m., Bayly said.

Bayly declined to specify the injuries or circumstances of the attack. “At this stage, I’m all set to say they knew each other and were going swimming and were attacked by sharks,” Bayly told reporters.

Burstander helped the brothers to the beach before the ambulance arrived, but the woman died at the scene.

The man was transported by helicopter, and Paramedic Josh Smyth said the man’s condition was serious but stable.

Smyth said Breakur’s first aid may have prevented two deaths.

“I just need to have a stroke of the sea in the sea that put the man on the edge which obviously saved his life and allowed the help of the New South Wales Ambulance to get to him again” Smyth told reporters.

Steven Pearce, surf life saving nsw chief executive, described it as “a really bad incident.”

“This place is so remote, there are no health monitoring services up there,” Pearce told local radio station 2GB.

The identity of a man and a woman are not released.

The Swiss Foreign Ministry said the two were Swiss nationals. “The Swiss Consulate General in Sydney is in contact with the local authorities and is supporting relatives within the framework of state protection,” the statement said.

Scientists have determined that the couple was attacked by a large bull shark, a government statement said.

Five drums – Caeds hooks set afloat – were sent to Kallies beach in an attempt to catch the shark, the government said.

Bollards have already been installed north of Port Macquarie and south of Forster to reduce shark numbers.

Gavin Naylor, director of the University of Florida research program and manager of the International Shark Attack File Database, said that a single shark attacking more than one person was rare.

“It’s very rare. Individual shark attacks are rare. And regular shark attacks are rare. And shark attacks on two people by the same person is unheard of, but it’s rare,” Naylor said.

Naylor said he would need to know the details of the shark’s behavior sequence Thursday to understand what prompted the bite.

Two British tourists were attacked by some sharks while struggling in a large reef on the northeast coast of the year 2019 in the year 2019. One lost his foot and the other injured his leg.

There have been more than 1,280 shark attacks around Australia since 1791, more than 250 of which resulted in death, according to a database of human and animal encounters.

The International Shark Attack File, a global shark attack database run by the University of Florida, noted last year that “Population” Deaths from shark bites in Australia in 2023 compared to other countries around the world.

A A shark is hot for killing a surfer on a Sydney beach in September. The man, who left behind a wife and young daughter, lost “several legs” and his surfboard was broken twice, police said.

Earlier this month, an Australian windsurfer had a lucky escape after coming face-to-face with a shark off the country’s west coast. Surf Media Website Flewnet.com’s camera captured the moment a shark appeared here and knocked out 61-year-old Andy McDonald.

“Everything was really good, and then out of the blue, bang, something heavy and solid hit me like a freight train,” McDonald told Australia’s ABC network. “It pushed me into the air and I fell to the Lord, I fell into the water. I knew it was a Shark.”

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