Australian teenager killed in shark attack off south coast

SYDNEY — A shark attacked and killed a teenaged boy in the waters off a holiday and surfing spot on Australia's south coast, police said on Thursday (Dec 28).

The body was pulled from the water after the attack, near Ethel Beach in the Innes National Park on the Yorke Peninsula, police in South Australia state said in a statement.

The teenager may have been about 30 m to 40 m distant from shore, Marty Goody, a local resident who has surfed in the area for decades, told the Australian Broadcasting Corp.

"It's the most open part to the open ocean ... that's the main area that gets the swell," Goody said.

The attack follows the death in May of a 46-year-old mauled by a shark at Walkers Rocks Beach on Eyre Peninsula.

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