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A surfer lacking in Australia is believed to have died in a shark assault, Police mentioned on Friday, as they continued to go looking the waters the place the person disappeared.

The 28-year-old was within the sea at a preferred surf seashore in South Australia the place one other man was killed by a white shark in 2023.

A witness who noticed the shark assault on Thursday night at Granites Beach, close to the coastal city of Streaky Bay, rode into the ocean on a jet ski and retrieved the person’s surfboard, Senior Constable Rebecca Stokes informed the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.

“There was just no sign of this young man, there’s just been no sign of him,” she informed ABC. “From witnesses’ descriptions, we’re pretty confident that sadly he’s been killed by this shark.”

The seashore was recognized to be frequented by sharks, Ms Stokes mentioned.

She didn’t specify what species of shark was believed to be concerned.

Emergency responders and volunteers had been looking out offshore on Friday for the native man and the seashore was closed to the general public.

Police had been making ready a coroner’s report, an announcement mentioned.

It comes after a youth pastor was killed in a shark assault whereas spearfishing within the waters of Australia‘s Great Barrier Reef last Saturday.

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Luke Walford, 40, a chaplain at the Cathedral of Praise Church in central Queensland, was fishing with his family members when a shark attacked him, Queensland police said.

He succumbed to his injuries at the scene just before 6pm local time despite repeated attempts by paramedics to revive him.

A rescue helicopter was called to the Humpy Island camping area in the Keppel Bay Islands National Park, about 18km off the mainland, after the pastor was attacked at around 4.30pm local time, the police said.

Shark attacks in Australia are rare with 255 fatal bites recorded since 1791 in the country of 27 million people, according to the Australian Shark Incident Database.

The state of South Australia has registered more episodes in the past two years than usual.

There were five shark attacks off the state’s coast in 2023, three of them deadly and one on the similar seashore as Thursday’s incident.

Scientists on the time mentioned they didn’t know the rationale for the cluster.

There was one non-fatal shark chew off South Australia’s coast in 2024.