Third shark attack on Great Barrier Reef

A shark killed a man in an island harbour on Australia’s Great Barrier Reef, where two tourists were mauled on consecutive days in September. The victim, Daniel Christidis, 33, was among 10 friends who set out from Airlie Beach on the Queensland mainland on Monday morning on a rented yacht on a five-day cruise through the Whitsunday Islands, police said. Christidis, a urologist from Melbourne, had dived into the water when he was attacked. French-speaking tourists launched a dinghy from their yacht and rescued Chritidis, but his injuries were “too severe” and he died after being flown to a hospital 100 kilometres away, police said.