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A 12-year-old Australian boy who had been clinging to life after a shark attack last week died from severe injuries suffered when a suspected bull shark took a single bite while he was swimming in the ...

Coffs Harbour, Australia — It was just before noon when Nathaniel Woodcock returned to the beach with fresh batteries for his drone. It was the height of the Australian summer, and the 21-year-old was ...

Nico Antic died following a shark attack in New South Wales, Australia, on Jan. 18 gofundme Nico Antic suffered serious leg injuries in a shark attack in New South Wales, Australia, on Sunday, Jan. 18 ...

There have been four reported shark attacks on the coast off the Sydney area of Australia in the last 48 hours. Some people have sustained life-changing injuries. Agencies suspect that heavy rain has ...

Dozens of beaches along Australia's east coast, including in Sydney, closed on Tuesday, Jan. 20 after four shark attacks in two days, as heavy rains left waters murky and more likely to attract the ...

A surfer in Australia escaped a shark attack with minor injuries on Tuesday, marking the fourth shark attack off the country’s most populous state in just three days. The shark struck around 9 a.m. at ...

A surfer had minor injuries from being bitten by a shark Tuesday in the fourth attack off the coast of Australia’s most populous state in three days. The shark attacked the man’s surfboard at Point ...

A surfer had minor injuries from being bitten by a shark Tuesday in the fourth attack off the coast of Australia's most populous state in three days. The series of attacks have prompted beach closures ...

Many of the closed beaches were in Sydney, the site of three of the attacks. By Laura Chung Reporting from Sydney, Australia Dozens of beaches in eastern Australia were closed on Tuesday, after four ...

Australian officials are ramping up drone patrols after four shark attacks over two days around New South Wales, an unusual spate of violence that left three people injured, two of them critically. In ...

Australia’s long summer school holidays usually draws crowds to the beach but a spate of shark attacks in the country’s most populous state has triggered warnings to stay out of the water. Around 40 ...