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29 March 2024

Groom killed by shark as bride looks on helplessly

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By Staff/AFP

Newly-wed Ian Redmond was killed by a shark while he was honeymooning in an island. The horrified bride could do nothing but helplessly looked on.

Just 11 days after their wedding the couple went for their honeymoon in Seychelles, The Sun reported.

The 30-year old Briton, was attacked in shallow water 100ft off a beach. Ian suffered horrific injuries as the shark attacked him savagely. Fishermen carried him to the beach but he died before paramedics could arrive.

Bride Gemma Houghton, 27, from Wigan, was sunbathing and when she heard him shout for help as the Bull shark ferociously attacked him. She could do nothing to help her husband. Gemma was stopped and was kept away from the mutilated body of her husband.

It was the second attack by a Bull shark in two weeks on Praslin Island in the Seychelles. The previous shark attack victim was a French diver.

An eyewitness said he saw Ian swim close to the beach when he sudenly began splashing and shouting. His arm was ripped off and parts of his torso were missing. Witnesses say he also suffered deathly injuries in his chest and stomach.

The couple, who married on August 6, were at stunning Anse Lazio beach in the early evening when the shark attacked.

A Seychelles tourism source said: "The latest bite marks are consistent with that of a Bull shark. It is probably the same rogue maneater."

Shark chews off man’s arm

A shark attacked a young man in the Russian Far East biting off his arms in an extremely rare attack in the northwestern part of the Sea of Japan, a report said on Wednesday.

"A 25-year-old man was brought in grave condition, unconscious. His arms were chewed off at the elbows," the Interfax news agency quoted a source in a hospital in the Khasan district of the Far Eastern Primorye region as saying.

"He'll live," the source added.

A local law enforcement source told Interfax that a shark attacked the man 50 metres (yards) off the shore earlier Wednesday. "A witness helped the victim to get out of the water and also called rescue workers and medics," it said.

A spokesman for the local branch of the emergencies ministry confirmed to AFP that a "sea animal" attacked a man in the southern Khasan region but declined to provide further details.

Another local spokesman said officials expected to receive more details of the attack after hoping to speak to the man on Thursday.

Following the attack, local emergencies ministry officials toured the area warning thousands of swimmers to watch out for sharks, Interfax said.

Several types of sharks including the herring shark can be spotted in the northwestern part of the Sea of Japan but they do not attack people and swimming there is considered generally safe.

The emergencies ministry spokesman told AFP his ministry has never before registered a shark attack on a human in the Primorye region.