TORONTO – A British tourist vacationing in the Seychelles was killed in a shark attack Tuesday while swimming at a local beach.
The 30-year-old man is the second person to die from a shark attack in the same area this month. A ban on swimming remains in effect until authorities capture the man-eating shark.
Elsewhere, a three-metre great white shark was captured off Canada’s east coast earlier this month.
The fierce predator was caught alive off the coast of Nova Scotia, though it later died. The shark’s head was sent to Halifax’s Museum of Natural History for further study.
Although very rare, sharks off Canada’s East Coast are not unheard of. The area has reported 33 shark sightings since 1874.
Close encounters
Animal attacks have been widely reported summer.
A B.C. man is lucky to be alive after a black bear attacked him during a morning walk with his dog earlier this month. The mother black bear was shot and killed by authorities following a series of increasingly aggressive appearances in the Metro Vancouver suburb of Anmore.
A British man on a trip to Norway’s Arctic Svalbard archipelago was killed by a polar bear in early August. The animal also injured several other campers in the same tourist group.
A vicious llama attack at a Langley, B.C. petting zoo in late July sent a Montreal woman to hospital with numerous fractures and a broken knee. The animal trampled the 75-year-old as she tried to feed it grain.
In July, a female grizzly bear fatally mauled a hiker in the backcountry of Yellowstone National Park. It was the third bear attack in the Yellowstone region in just over one year, but the first fatal attack inside the park in 25 years.
A young woman narrowly escaped injury in July after she scared away a cougar that was stalking her while she rode her bike in Nanaimo, B.C. Two other cougar sightings in the area had local residents on high alert. The sightings followed a spate of close encounters with wildlife in B.C. earlier that month.
Just days earlier, an elderly woman was mauled by a bear near Lillooet, B.C. Wildlife officials killed four black bears, one of which they believed was responsible for the near-fatal attack.
In Alberta, conservation officers killed a young male cougar that attacked a 6-year-old girl while she was hiking with her family in Bow Valley Provincial Park. The child suffered only minor wounds in the early August attack.
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With files from The Canadian Press
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