A 38-year-old man died in Western Australia on Saturday after being attacked by a shark. the local rescue services informed the AFP agency, writes TASR. The incident happened after 10:00 a.m. local time (04:00 a.m. CEST) off Rottnest Island near Perth, a spokesman for St John Ambulance Western Australia said.
The incident happened around 10:00 a.m. local time (04:00 a.m. CEST) off Rottnest Island near Perth, Western Australia police said. “Unfortunately, the man could not be revived,” she confirmed.
The state’s Ministry of Primary Industry and Regional Development told AFP the man was bitten by a blue shark. which was four meters long. According to the database of encounters between these predators and humans, in Australia since 1791 there have been almost 1,300 incidents involving sharks, of which more than 260 resulted in death. The latest victim was a 12-year-old boy who died after a shark attack in Sydney Harbor in January.
The attack was one of four recorded in two days, prompting authorities to close dozens of the city’s beaches. It was also the third recent shark-related death in the city. In this regard, Australian scientists believe that increasingly crowded waters and rising ocean temperatures are affecting shark migration routes, which may contribute to an increase in such attacks.
