He was pulled out of the water but was declared dead at the scene. (Representative)
Australia:
A 16-year-old girl died after being mauled by a shark while swimming in a river in Western Australia on Saturday, officials said.
A state government statement said the girl was bitten by an unknown species of shark in the Swan River in the Perth suburb of North Fremantle.
Fremantle District Police Acting Inspector Paul Robinson said he was pulled out of the water, but was pronounced dead at the scene after resuscitation efforts failed.
“It’s too early, the advice we are being given is that she was with friends on the river,” he told a news conference.
“They were on jet skis. It is possible a pod of dolphins were being observed nearby and the young woman jumped in to swim near the dolphins.”
Describing it as a “very, very painful incident”, Robinson said the girl’s family, who were from Perth, were “completely devastated by this news”.
He said fisheries experts had advised that it was unusual to find sharks in that stretch of the river.
The state government warned people to take “extra caution” in the Swan River in North Fremantle and observe any beach closures.
The last recorded fatal attack in an Australian river was in 1960 when a bull shark estimated to measure 3.3 meters (about 11 feet) killed a snorkeler at the Roseville Bridge in Sydney, according to a database run by the Taronga Conservation Society. Was.
In February last year, Simon Nellist, a 35-year-old British diving instructor, was swallowed on Sydney’s Little Bay Beach, the first such attack in the country’s largest city since 1963.
According to Sports Australia, 4.5 million Australians swim regularly and at least 500,000 surf.
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