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Shark kills swimmer off Western Australian city beach - WRAL

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ROD McGUIRK — Associated Press
Shark kills swimmer off Western Australian city beach - WRAL
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, so the rights line plexer's image transform adds to body images has to be built here. Same shape on purpose: "A caption (© WRAL)", or a bare "© WRAL" with no caption. --> A police boat and and helicopter patrol the area at Sorrento Beach, in Perth, Australia, Friday, Sept. 18, 2026, after a suspected fatal shark attack. (Andrew O'Connor/Australian Broadcasting Corp via AP) By ROD McGUIRK — Associated Press MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — A man was killed by a shark as he swam off a Western Australian city beach Friday while beachgoers watched in horror.

Boats and helicopters searched the ocean off Sorrento Beach in Perth's northern suburbs after the late-morning attack, a police statement said. Police would not say whether potential remains had been found.

But police were confident the “swimmer died as a result of the attack,” the statement said.

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