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Police say surfer ‘taken by means of shark’ in Western Australia

Police say surfer ‘taken by means of shark’ in Western Australia
March 12, 2025



Seek for lacking surfer now a restoration operation after proof of chunk marks discovered on surf board.Australian police have showed {that a} surfer who went lacking was once “taken by means of a shark” after seek and rescue groups recovered a surfboard scarred with “chunk marks” from the realm of the assault.
The sufferer – recognized by means of Australian media as 37-year-old Steven Payne – was once mauled by means of a shark whilst browsing at Wharton seashore in a faraway space of Western Australia, police mentioned overdue on Tuesday.
It marks Australia’s fourth reported deadly shark assault in contemporary months.
“I will be able to verify that our seek is a restoration, no longer a rescue,” Western Australia Police Pressure Senior Sergeant Christopher Taylor mentioned, noting that the surfer’s frame has no longer been recovered.
“A surfboard with proof of chunk marks was once recovered from the water,” Western Australia Police mentioned in a separate remark on Tuesday.
In keeping with media stories, a shark was once noticed simply moments earlier than the assault within the water off Wharton seashore and screams have been heard coming from the realm the place the person was once browsing at about noon.
Australia’s 7News community mentioned the sufferer was once in chest-deep water about 50 metres (164 toes) from the shore with two different surfers when he was once attacked. Police mentioned the opposite surfers have been not able to do anything else to assist.
In February, a shark killed a 17-year-old woman swimming off an jap Australian island, whilst a 28-year-old surfer was once fatally bitten in South Australia a month previous.
On December 28, a shark fatally bit a 40-year-old guy within the neck as he was once spearfishing off Queensland.
Police say surfer ‘taken by means of shark’ in Western AustraliaSurfers stroll alongside a seashore in Sydney, Australia, in April 2020 [Rick Rycroft/AP Photo]

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