Australian beaches closed after latest shark attack
AFP
August 23, 2015, 1:30 pm
Several beaches on Australia's east coast remained closed Sunday after a bodyboarder was seriously hurt in a shark attack, just weeks after two others were badly mauled at a nearby region.
A 38-year-old man was bodyboarding with a friend off Lighthouse Beach, about 400 kilometres (248 miles) north of Sydney, late 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 stomach and back wounds and was in a stable condition on Sunday morning, a hospital spokeswoman told AFP.
