A man spearfishing with friends was killed by a shark on the Great Barrier Reef on Sunday, police said, in Australia’s second fatal shark attack in just over a week.
The 39-year-old man was with three friends diving from a boat at Kennedy Shoal off the Queensland state coast south of Cairns when he was attacked, Police Inspector Elaine Burns said.
“The man had been spearfishing when he was attacked and died from a critical head injury,” Burns told reporters.
Police said the man who pulled the victim from the water was “pretty close” to the incident and witnessed the attack, the Australian
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