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A 38-year-old man has been killed by a 4-metre great white shark in Western Australia.
On Saturday, the man was bitten shortly before 10:00 a.m. (03:00 BST) at Horseshoe Reef, northwest of the famous Rottnest Island, near the city of Perth, local police said.
Aerial footage shows the man being carried ashore by boat where paramedics and police performed CPR at the Geordie Bay jetty, local media outlet ABC reported.
“Unfortunately, the man could not be resuscitated,” a police spokesperson said.
The state’s Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development told the AFP news agency it had received a tip that the man had been bitten by the great white.
The ministry urged the public to exercise “extra caution” in the waters around the area.
It is the first fatal incident in Western Australia since March last year, when a surfer was mauled off a remote beach.
Since records began in 1791, almost 1,300 shark attacks have been recorded in Australia, more than 260 of which resulted in death.
Earlier this year, in January, four shark attacks were reported along the New South Wales coast for two days.
One of the victims included Nico Antic, 12 years old who jumped off a rock into Sydney Harbor and was attacked by a suspected bull shark.
He died a week later, and his parents said in a joint statement that they were “heartbroken.”
