A 19-year-old French surfer was reportedly paddling back to his boat when he was hit by a shark in the waters of New Caledonia in the south Pacific, according to a story on the Associated Press.
Police commander Alain Bouedo says the 19-year-old surfer was swimming back to his boat early Friday when the shark sank its jaws into his arm and leg, causing fatal injuries. . . . The young man was dead by the time doctors arrived.
A report in The Austrialian says:
The 19-year-old student’s arm was ripped off and his leg bitten when he was attacked “apparently by several sharks” while trying to get back onto a boat with his friend on Friday, police said.
[Link: Associated Press and The Australian]
