Australian teen killed in shark attack | Inquirer News

Australian teen killed in shark attack

/ 08:27 AM December 30, 2014

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SYDNEY, Australia—Australian officials are hunting for a shark that killed a teenager off Australia’s southwest coast.

Seventeen-year-old Jay Muscat was spearfishing with a friend on Monday off Cheynes Beach, on the south coast of Western Australia state, when he was attacked. The state fisheries department says the shark was likely a great white.

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Officials closed the beach and deployed equipment on Tuesday in an effort to catch the animal.

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The attack comes two weeks after an 18-year-old man was killed by a shark while spearfishing on the Great Barrier Reef off Australia’s east coast.

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