Surfer Killed by Shark Attack in Sydney, Australia

Sophie Lumsden, a Sydney local was on the beach when the attack occurred.

She told The Telegraph:

“I was sitting at the beach having a coffee and the shark alarm went off. Two minutes later, four ambulances turned up. There is someone on the beach but it doesn’t look like they are doing much treating. They haven’t taken them off the beach yet, and cops are surrounding them. It doesn’t look good."

Details are scarce surrounding the attack; more as they come.

The most recent mauling comes just over two weeks after another surfer was attacked, and catapulted into the air, by a shark at Cabarita Beach – just down the coast.

In that incident, the man survived with barely a scratch…miraculously.

Speaking to ABC, a friend of the attacked surfer at Cabarita who was in the water, described: “The board exploded, one half went that way, the other half went that way, there was just whitewash and debris everywhere. It all happened so fast, it still hasn’t really processed … what happened and how quickly. You grow up surfing, you think about sharks and they are out there but to see one so big this close in is pretty rare.”

Condolences to the loved ones of the attack near Dee Why.