A 20-year-old bodyboarder has been killed by a giant shark estimated at up to five metres long that bit off his leg in a Cape Town bay, in South Africa’s second deadly mauling this year.
David Lillienfeld’s brother, Gustav, tried to pull him to safety when the shark struck while the siblings were bodyboarding, Eyewitness News website reported on Thursday.
“The deceased man sustained complete amputation of his right leg, below the hip, while body boarding with his brother and friends,” said National Sea Rescue Institute spokesman Craig Lambinon.
