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		</div><p>A man has died after being attacked by a shark in Western Australia, marking the eighth fatality in the country this year.</p>
<p>Police were called to Cable Beach, a popular tourist spot on Australia’s Indian Ocean coast, at about 8.40am.</p>
<p>The man, 55, was pulled from the water with serious injuries and treated by police before paramedics arrived. He died at the scene, police said.</p>
<p>Police said later that they shot at the shark, which lingered close to the shore, for almost half an hour after the attack.</p>
<p>The species of the shark was not immediately confirmed, but locals told reporters it may have been a tiger shark, which are sometimes drawn close to the shore by shoals of small fish.</p>
<p>Kimberley District Office police inspector Gene Pears told reporters that the victim had been body boarding about 30 to 40 metres from the beach when he was attacked.</p>
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<p>A couple on the beach saw thrashing in the water and rushed to drag the man to safety. The man suffered injuries to his leg and hand.</p>
<p>“It’s a tragic incident, very unexpected, a person going out to have a bit of fun in the water,” Mr Pears said.</p>
<p>Park rangers immediately closed the beach and a fisheries vessel was assigned to patrol the area.</p>
<p>The victim was the eighth to die in a shark attack in Australia this year, the highest toll since 1929 when nine died.</p>
<p>The introduction of shark nets at popular beaches in the 1930s led to a significant fall in fatal attacks.</p>
<p>The most recent previous attack in Western Australia occurred on October 9, when a surfer was taken by a shark at Esperance on the state’s south coast.</p>
<p>Companions saw the man, Andrew Sharpe, dragged from his board. His body was not found despite a three-day search but his surfboard and parts of his wetsuit were located.</p>
<p>Broome, near where the latest shark attack took place, is about 1,000 miles north of Western Australia’s largest city, Perth.</p>
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