She was pulled from the water however pronounced useless on the scene. (Representational)

Australia:

A 16-year-old woman died Saturday after being mauled by a shark as she swam in a river in Western Australia, officers stated.

The woman was bitten by an unknown species of shark within the Swan River within the Perth suburb of North Fremantle, a state authorities assertion stated.

She was pulled from the water however pronounced useless on the scene after efforts to revive her failed, stated Paul Robinson, police appearing inspector for the Fremantle district.

“It’s extremely early on, what we’re being suggested is that she was with buddies on the river,” he advised a information convention.

“They had been on jet skis. Attainable a pod of dolphins had been being seen close by and the younger feminine jumped in to swim close by the dolphins.”

Describing it as a “very, very traumatic incident,” Robinson stated the household of the woman, who was from Perth, had been “completely devastated by the information”.

Fisheries specialists had suggested that it was uncommon for sharks to be present in that a part of the river, he stated.

The state authorities warned folks to take “further warning” within the Swan River in North Fremantle and to abide by any seaside closures.

The final deadly assault in an Australian river was recorded in 1960 when a bull shark measuring an estimated 3.3 metres (almost 11 toes) killed a snorkeller at Roseville Bridge in Sydney, in line with a database run by Taronga Conservation Society.

In February final yr, a 35-year-old British diving teacher, Simon Nellist, was devoured off Sydney’s Little Bay Seashore, the primary such assault within the nation’s largest metropolis since 1963.

In keeping with Sports activities Australia, 4.5 million Aussies swim often and a minimum of 500,000 surf.

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