‘Like a scene off Jaws.’ Shark kills swimmer at busy seaside

A person is lifeless after a big shark attacked him as he swam at a busy Western Australia seaside the morning of Sept. 18, horrifying onlookers in each the water and on shore.

The Western Australia Police Force stated officers responded to an incident involving a shark round 10:30 a.m. native time at Sorrento Beach.

The space is a well-liked swimming spot simply over 12 miles northwest of Perth.

“It was reported a male swimmer had been bitten by a shark while swimming along the coast,” police stated in an announcement.

“I couldn’t believe there was that much blood (that had) come out of a human body,” Witness Ryan Rowe informed The West Australian newspaper.

Witness Ingrid Mitchell, who stated she swims day by day on the seaside, informed native TV station 7news.com the person was dragged out into deeper water “at a rate of knots.”

“How do you just watch someone be mauled to pieces in front of you, basically? It’s pretty hard,” Mitchell informed the outlet.

Another witness, Darrel Haythornthwaite, informed the outlet the assault “was like a scene off Jaws”.

“I just can’t believe it,” Haythornthwaite stated, including the sufferer’s pal made it again to shore. “He felt bad because he didn’t go back to save his mate and I said, ‘Nah you couldn’t have done that.’ There’s nothing that anyone could have done.”

It was not instantly recognized what species of shark attacked the swimmer, however a greater than 16-foot great white shark was reported to the monitoring web site SharkSensible at a close-by reef simply after midday the identical day of the mauling.

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The mauling marked the second shark assault in Western Australia in lower than 4 days.

A shark mauled a surfer at a seaside within the city of Geraldton, about 250 miles north of Perth. The surfer misplaced his foot within the assault and suffered critical leg accidents, native media reported.

Contributing: Reuters

Natalie Neysa Alund is a senior reporter for USA TODAY. Reach her at nalund@usatoday.com and observe her on X @nataliealund.

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