PERTH, Australia (AP) A 35-year-old surfer was fatally mauled by a shark Saturday off a notorious stretch of Australia's west coast, police said.
The shark "bounced off the board" of one surfer "before attacking the other male" off a beach near Gracetown, said Western Australia state police Sgt. Norm Giocas.
The sleepy community of Gracetown has now been the site of three fatal shark attacks on surfers in the past decade. Surfers were also killed there in 2004 and 2010.
The victim, whose identity was known but not immediately released while police notified relatives, died instantly from massive injuries, Giocas said, adding that beachgoers brought his body ashore.
Surfer Ryan Scanlon saw the body and told the PerthNow news website that the victim had lost his left arm and flesh from his right leg.