A 10-year-old boy had his leg torn off Saturday afternoon by a shark while swimming in a bay in central Noumea, New Caledonia, local media reported.
One leg and part of the abdomen torn off
The child was bathing at the end of a boat with his sister in Port du Sud, a marina in the Orphanage Bay in Nouméa, when he was attacked by a shark, who tore off a leg and a part of it. abdomen, according to information from New Caledonia the 1st and RRB radio.
A bulldog shark, the main suspect
The father then jumped into the water to recover his child while the girl had managed to get out of the water. The badly wounded boy was evacuated to the Koutio Hospital Center. According to witnesses, the assailant is a bulldog shark, which continues to roam in this area where swimming has been banned.