Teenage boy killed in Yorke Peninsula shark attack
UPDATE: A teenage boy has died after being bitten by a shark at a remote beach on South Australia’s Yorke Peninsula.
A person is reportedly "seriously injured" after a shark attack on the Yorke Peninsula this afternoon.
Emergency services were called to Ethel Beach in Innes National Park with reports of a shark attack at 1.30pm on Thursday.
There, at the popular surf beach hemmed in by towering cliffs, they recovered the teenager’s body.
Police are preparing a report for the coroner.
The attack comes after a spate of serious shark bites in recent months, including the fatal attack of 55-year-old Tod Gendle at Granites Beach on the state’s West Coast in October.
His was the second shark death this year after 46-year-old teacher Simon Baccanello disappeared without a trace in May while surfing at Walkers Rock Beach near Eliston on the Eyre Peninsula.
