新西兰惠灵顿-一名在澳大利亚失踪的冲浪者被认为死于鲨鱼当局周五说，袭击，因为他们搜索了男子失踪的水域。
2023年，这位28岁的男子在南澳大利亚一个受欢迎的冲浪海滩下海，另一名男子在那里被白鲨杀死。
高级警官丽贝卡·斯托克斯告诉澳大利亚广播公司，一名目击者周四晚上在海滨城镇斯赖比湾附近的格兰尼特斯海滩目睹了鲨鱼袭击事件，他乘坐摩托艇进入大海，并取回了该男子的冲浪板。
斯托克斯对美国广播公司说:“但就是没有这个年轻人的迹象，就是没有他的迹象。”“从目击者的描述来看，我们非常确定他是被这条鲨鱼杀死的。"
斯托克斯说，众所周知，该海滩经常有鲨鱼出没。她没有具体说明据信涉及的是哪种鲨鱼。
应急人员和志愿者周五在海上搜寻这名当地人，海滩对公众关闭。一份声明称，警方正在准备验尸官的报告。
澳大利亚鲨鱼袭击事件很少，有255起致命的咬伤根据澳大利亚鲨鱼事件数据库，自1791年以来，这个国家有2700万人被记录在案。
但是在过去的两年里，南澳大利亚州比往常发生了更多的事件。2023年该州海岸发生了五起鲨鱼袭击事件，其中三个是致命的另一个和周四的事件发生在同一个海滩。
科学家当时表示，他们不知道该集群的原因。2024年，南澳大利亚海岸发生了一起非致命的鲨鱼咬伤事件。
A missing surfer in Australia is believed dead in a shark attack, police say
WELLINGTON, New Zealand --A surfer missing in Australia is believed to have died in asharkattack, authorities said Friday, as they searched the waters where the man disappeared.
The 28-year-old was in the sea at a popular surf beach in South Australia where another man was killed by a white shark in 2023.
A witness who saw the shark attack on Thursday evening at Granites Beach, near the coastal town of Streaky Bay, rode into the sea on a jet ski and retrieved the man’s surfboard, Senior Constable Rebecca Stokes told the Australian Broadcasting Corp.
“But there was just no sign of this young man, there’s just been no sign of him,” Stokes told the ABC. “From witnesses’ descriptions we’re pretty confident that sadly he’s been killed by this shark.”
The beach was known to be frequented by sharks, Stokes said. She did not specify what species of shark was believed to be involved.
Emergency responders and volunteers were searching offshore on Friday for the local man and the beach was closed to the public. Police were preparing a coroner’s report, a statement said.
Shark attacks in Australia are rare, with 255fatal bitesrecorded since 1791 in the country of 27 million people, according to the Australian Shark Incident Database.
But the state of South Australia has registered more episodes in the past two years than usual. There were five shark attacks of the state’s coast in 2023,three of them fataland one at the same beach as Thursday’s incident.
Scientists at the time said they did not know the reason for the cluster. There was one non-fatal shark bite off South Australia’s coast in 2024.
