Snorkeler killed in ‘savage’ shark attack
A man has been killed by a bull shark while snorkelling with his wife off the Pacific Ocean island of Kouare, New Caledonia.
French national Yves Berthelot was bitten several times while on a cruise with friends.
He was swimming just metres from the boat when he was attacked.
His friends, mostly health professionals, pulled him from the water and tried to revive him, but he died at the scene.
Sky News reported a local police spokesman as saying it was a ‘really savage and sudden attack’.
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Editor in chief Bev Fearis has been a travel journalist for 25 years. She started her career at Travel Weekly, where she became deputy news editor, before joining Business Traveller as deputy editor and launching the magazine’s website. She has also written travel features, news and expert comment for the Guardian, Observer, Times, Telegraph, Boundless and other consumer titles and was named one of the top 50 UK travel journalists by the Press Gazette.
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