The shark charged twice at the victim, biting him on the arms and thigh, as his new wife lay on the beach nearby.
9:16pm UK, Wednesday 08 May 2013
A man has been attacked and killed by a shark on his honeymoon while surfing near a beach on the French island of Reunion.
The 36-year-old French national was in the sea just off the popular beach of Brisants de Saint-Gilles on the west of the island when a shark charged at him twice, prompting a nearby swimmer to raise the alarm when he saw blood on the water, the local prefecture said.
Lifeguards jumped in the water to fetch the victim, who had lost a lot of blood and was in cardiac and respiratory arrest. They brought him back to the beach but were unable to revive him.
The shark had bitten the surfer on the arm and on the thigh. His wife was on the beach when the attack happened and is being treated for shock, the authorities said.
According to reports in the French media, the couple are from Morteau in eastern France.
The deadly shark attack was the first this year on the French island, where three people have been killed by sharks in the past two years.
Two attacks, one fatal and one causing serious injury, happened just days apart last summer.
That prompted surfers on the island to call for a marine nature reserve on that area of the island to be closed, which they blame for an increase in shark attacks since 2011.
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