A teenage boy was rushed to hospital with 'serious' arm injuries after he was mauled by a shark in Australia.
Emergency services swooped to the scene of the attack at Cabarita Beach in New South Wales just before 4pm on Sunday.
The victim received a severe bit injury on his arm among other serious injuries, New Souh Wales Ambulance stated.
The boy was transported by helicopter to Gold Coast University Hospital, where he remains in a serious but stable condition.
It is unknown which breed of shark carried out the attack.
The incident comes just months after a tragic shark attack in Birsbie Island, north of Brisbane, which saw a teenage girl mauled to death.
Charlize Zmuda, 17, was visiting Woorim Beach on the island with friends on February 3 when she was bitten by a shark.
Charlize, a lifesurfer since the eight of eight, was swimming about 100ft offshore late in the afternoon when witnesses heard a “piercing scream”.
Paramedics dashed into the water to rescue her, but the teenager had suffered catastrophic upper-body injuries and was pronounced dead at the scene.
Charlize's death followed another fatal shark attack on surfer Lance Appleby, 28, who was killed off South Australia’s coast in January. Just a month earlier, in December last year, 40-year-old pastor Luke Walford died while spearfishing in the Southern Great Barrier Reef near Humpy Island.
