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A woman was killed in what appears to be the first fatal shark attack in New Zealand in eight years, police said Friday.
Emergency services responded Thursday afternoon to reports of a woman “injured in the water” at Waihi Beach, a popular tourist spot a 95-mile (153-kilometer) drive southeast of Auckland, a police statement said. .
“There are indications that she had been injured by a shark,” said Police Inspector Dean Anderson.
She was pulled out of the water with injuries to her legs and attempts to resuscitate her on the beach failed, media reported.
A doctor who was on vacation joined paramedics, lifeguards and emergency services personnel to try to save the woman, Anderson said.
The woman, whose identity has not been released, was due to undergo an autopsy Friday, Anderson said.
The last fatal shark attack in New Zealand was in February 2013 when a 46-year-old swimmer was mutilated on Muriwai Beach, 41 kilometers (25 miles) west of Auckland.
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