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Australian beaches closed after latest shark attack

Published Sun, Aug 23, 2015 · 09:50 PM
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Sydney

SEVERAL beaches on Australia's east coast remained closed on Sunday after a bodyboarder was seriously hurt in a shark attack, just weeks after two others were badly mauled at a nearby location.

A 38-year-old man was bodyboarding with a friend off Lighthouse Beach, about 400 kilometres north of Sydney, late on Saturday afternoon when he was attacked and suffered "life-threatening injuries", New South Wales state police said. He was treated at Port Macquarie Hospital for stom…

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