A teenager, whose age It was not specified, he died this Thursday in the wake of a shark attack in a remote coastal area of ​​the south australia. The attack occurred around 1:30 p.m. local time (3:00 GMT) on Ethel Beach, near Innes National Park, the Police of this Australian jurisdiction explained in a statement.

At first, the authorities pointed out that the emergency services had been mobilized to the scene to attend to the victim who suffered serious injuries. However, hours later they indicated that the man, whose age was not specified, died from his injuries and “the teenager’s body was recovered from the water.”

In October they registered two shark attacks in waters of this regionresulting in the death of a 55-year-old surfer and another who caused leg injuries of a swimmer who survived the attack. In May, another man, aged 46, lost his life while surfing after suffering a shark attack on a beach in the coastal town of Elliston, also in South Australia, while in February a 16-year-old teenager lost her life to following a shark attack in a Western Australian river.

Despite this, shark attacks on humans are not common and, according to the latest annual report from the International Shark Attack File (ISAF) at the University of Florida), In 2022, 57 unprovoked attacks were recorded of sharks worldwide, the lowest figure in the last ten years.