A 16-year-old girl died on Saturday after being mauled by a shark in a river in Western Australia’s state capital Perth.
Authorities were not sure what kind of shark attacked the girl, the Australian Broadcasting Corp reported.
People were being urged to take extra caution in the Swan River around Fremantle in the wake of the mauling. The last fatal shark attack in Western Australian waters was in November 2021 when a 57-year-old man was killed by a great white shark at Perth’s Port Beach.More than 100 species of shark live in the waters of Western Australia — the nation’s largest state, with bull sharks often found many miles upriver.
The risk of shark attacks in the state is low, according to the state government, which has set up a dedicated shark response unit to work with first responders on shark incidents.and Bronte, were shut down last February after a swimmer was killed in a shark attack, the first such fatality at the city’s beaches in nearly 60 years.
Australia ranked behind only the United States in the number of unprovoked shark bites on humans in 2021, according to the University of Florida’s International Shark Attack File.
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