#Teen dies after shark attack in Australia

An Australian teen is dead after being bitten by a shark in the country’s 10th attack by maneaters this year.

Mani Hart-Deville’s legs were mauled by what authorities believe was a great white shark. As the creature made multiple passes at the 17-year-old, fellow beachgoers tried to fend it off, according to news.com.au.

Hart-Deville was treated on the beach but died at the scene, Reuters reported. The beach was shut down.

“What’s happened there this afternoon would shake everybody,” Jim Simmons, the mayor of nearby Clarence Valley, said in a statement, reported by The Guardian. “It’s terribly shocking. All of our sympathies, from people in the area, go out to the boy’s family.”

The attack occurred off Wooli Beach on the country’s eastern coast near Coffs Harbour, roughly 240 miles south of Brisbane.