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Witnesses told local television they had seen the attack on a
swimmer wearing a wetsuit.
"Some guy was swimming and a shark came and attacked him
vertically," witness Kris Linto, told Nine.
"We heard a yell and turned around it looked like a car had
landed in the water, a big splash then the shark was chomping at
the body and there was blood everywhere."
Another witness estimated the shark was 4.5 metres in size.
"When he went down there were so many splashes," the witness,
who had been fishing on rocks nearby told ABC.
The New South Wales state government has spent millions of
dollars on technology in an attempt to reduce shark attacks
along its coast amid public concern, deploying nets at 51
beaches, as well as drones and shark listening stations that can
track white sharks by satellite and send an alert when one is
sighted.
It was the first fatal shark attack in Sydney since 1963, data
shows.
Emergency services were called at around 4:35 p.m. (0535 GMT) to
Buchan Point, Malabar, in Sydney's east, NSW police said. It
said the Little Bay Beach has been closed.
"Officers attached to Eastern Beaches Police Area Command, with
assistance from the Marine Area Command and Surf Life Saving
NSW, attended and located human remains in the water," it said.
The police offered no information about the identity of the
swimmer.
A NSW Ambulance spokeswoman said paramedics were called to
Little Bay, "unfortunately this patient had suffered
catastrophic injuries and there was nothing paramedics could
do."
(Reporting by Kirsty NeedhamEditing by Tomasz Janowski and Frank
Jack Daniel)
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