SYDNEY: A “large shark” mauled a surfer to death at a popular Sydney beach on Saturday, Australian police and rescuers said, in a rare fatal attack that led to a string of beach closures. The 57-year-old local man had gone surfing with five or six friends in the Pacific waters off northern Sydney’s adjoining Long Reef and Dee Why beaches, police and rescuers said. The man — an experienced surfer with a wife and a young daughter — lost “a number of limbs,” New South Wales police superintendent John Duncan told a news conference.

Man was brought to shore but died at the scene at Long Reef beach, NSW police say

A swimmer has been killed by a shark at a beach in Sydney's Northern Beaches.

Two sections of a surfboard were retrieved and taken for examination, police say