ABOVE: A man in Australia was killed in a shark attack Tuesday even as others swimmers tried to mount a desperate rescue
A man has been killed in an apparent shark attack at the popular tourist destination of Byron Bay on the Australian east coast.
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Ambulance spokeswoman Jackie Levett said an emergency phone call was made Tuesday morning to report the man, aged in his 40s, “had a very serious bite to his leg suspected to be from a shark.”
Levett said he was pulled from the water at Clarkes Beach where he was treated by a doctor. But he was pronounced dead.
Police said in a statement they were speaking to a number of people to try to determine the identity of the man.
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