fatal shark attack at Little Bay in Sydney's south-east.

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Great white shark mauls swimmer to death on Sydney beach
This is the horrific moment a great white shark fatally attacked a swimmer on Sydneybeach.

Emergency services rushed to Buchan Point in Sydney’s east just after 4.30pm on Wednesday following reports of a shark attack.

Video footage shows a fisherman shouting: “Someone just got eaten by a shark. Oh man! Oh no! That’s insane. That’s a great white shark.”

NSW Ambulance Inspector Lucky Phrachanh said: “Unfortunately this person had suffered catastrophic injuries and there wasn’t a lot paramedics could do when we arrived”.
A swimmer has been killed in Australia after being mauled by a 13ft great white shark in front of terrified witnesses who recalled hearing the man’s ear-splitting screams.

Horrifying footage from the scene shows local fishermen watching on helplessly as the victim was attacked by the predator at Buchan Point off Sydney at 4.30pm local time on Wednesday.
One witness described how they saw the shark ‘swallow parts of his body’ after ripping him in two with blood then seen rising from the water. It was the first fatal shark attack in Sydney since 1963.

After the alarm was raised, rescue helicopters and lifesavers on jet skis were sent out in search of the swimmer, with dozens of local swimmers ordered out of the water.

In the footage, a fisherman can be heard shouting 'someone just got eaten by a shark'.

The swimmer's remains were found in the water a short time afterwards, New South Wales Police confirmed. Parts of a wetsuit were also recovered.
'Footage clearly shows a body, half a body being taken by a shark,' a police officer told colleagues over a scanner.

'They have found some remains.'

The horrifying scenes occurred in front of dozens of fishermen and other Sydney beachgoers, who heard the swimmer's screams before the attack unfolded, sparking panic on shore.

'Someone just got eaten by a shark. Oh man! Oh no! That's insane. That's a great white shark,' one fisherman can be heard yelling in the footage.

'The person's still there!'

'I just saw a four to five metre (13ft) great white explode on the surface just here on a swimmer and it was like a car landing in the water.

'F*** man, I heard a scream and the shark was just chomping on his body and the body was in half just off the rocks here.'

'It came back and swallowed parts of his body and that was it. It disappeared.'
New South Wales Police said in a statement: 'An investigation into the swimmer's death is ongoing, and Little Bay Beach is closed as officers continue to search the area.'

Police said they would work with the state's Department of Primary Industries to investigate the circumstances of the swimmer's death.

A report would be prepared for the state coroner.

Four ambulance road crews and a rescue helicopter with a critical care doctor and a critical care paramedic on board attended the scene.

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