The fatal shark bite occurred on Wednesday near Little Bay. Mayor Dylan Parker of Randwick City, Australia, said, “To lose someone to a shark attack like this is chilling.”
A shark killed a swimmer on Wednesday off the coast of Sydney, Australia, officials said, in what local news outlets called the first fatal shark bite near the city in decades. At about 4:30 p.m. in Sydney, police officers and other emergency workers responded to a report of a shark incident in the vicinity of Buchan Point near Malabar, according to a statement from the New South Wales Police Force. They found human remains in the water, the police said. Little Bay Beach, about seven miles southeast of the Sydney Airport, was closed after the discovery and as officers continued to search the area. The police said the coroner would prepare a report on the death. The New South Wales Police Force and the state’s ambulance service did not respond to phone calls on Wednesday. The authorities did not identify the person who died. An official with the New South Wales ambulance service told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation that the person had suffered severe injuries and that there was nothing paramedics could do. On Wednesday, officials for Randwick City, the Sydney suburb where the attack took place, said area beaches would be closed for 24 hours while lifeguards patrolled the area looking for sharks.
