A 15-year-old surfer died Saturday when he was mauled by a shark, the second fatal attack in a week in Australia and already at least the fifth this year.
Police said the boy was surfing at Wooli Beach, near Grafton, about 600 kilometres north of Sydney in New South Wales state just before 2:30 p.m. when he was attacked. The shark attack left him with severe injuries to his legs.
"What's happened there this afternoon would shake everybody," Simmons said. "It's terribly shocking. All of our sympathies, from people in the area, go out to the boy's family." Last Saturday, a 20-year-old scuba diver who was spear fishing died after being attacked by a shark off the coast of Australia's Queensland state. The man was attacked near Indian Head on the eastern side of Fraser Island.
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