Missing surfer believed to have been killed by shark
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South Australia has registered more shark attacks in the past two years than usual. A surfer missing in Australia is believed to have died in a shark attack, Police said on Friday, as they continued to search the waters where the man disappeared. The 28-year-old was in the sea at a popular surf beach in South Australia where another man was killed by a white shark in 2023.
![[A sign on Manly beach Australia warns of a shark sighting]](https://static.independent.co.uk/2022/02/16/12/shark.jpg)
A witness who saw the shark attack on Thursday evening at Granites Beach, near the coastal town of Streaky Bay, rode into the sea on a jet ski and retrieved the man’s surfboard, Senior Constable Rebecca Stokes told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
“There was just no sign of this young man, there’s just been no sign of him,” she told ABC. “From witnesses’ descriptions, we’re pretty confident that sadly he’s been killed by this shark.”. The beach was known to be frequented by sharks, Ms Stokes said.
She did not specify what species of shark was believed to be involved. Emergency responders and volunteers were searching offshore on Friday for the local man and the beach was closed to the public. Police were preparing a coroner’s report, a statement said.
It comes after a youth pastor was killed in a shark attack while spearfishing in the waters of Australia‘s Great Barrier Reef last Saturday. Luke Walford, 40, a chaplain at the Cathedral of Praise Church in central Queensland, was fishing with his family members when a shark attacked him, Queensland police said.
