Sydney, Nov 27, (dpa/GNA) – A woman has died and a man was seriously injured in a shark attack, some 280 kilometres north of Sydney, New South Wales (NSW) Police said on Thursday.
The woman and the man, both believed to be in their 20s, were assisted by witnesses following the attack early on Thursday at Crowdy Bay, on the NSW Mid North Coast, police said in a statement.
The woman died at the scene, while the man “sustained serious injuries and has been airlifted to the John Hunter Hospital in a critical condition,” the statement continued.
The beach has been closed and experts were working to establish the species of shark involved, police said.
According to the Australian Shark-Incident Database, there were three fatal attacks in the country in the first half of 2025. In September, a surfer was also fatally injured, in a suspected shark attack off the coast of Sydney.
GNA