SHARK! (warning-graphic attack photos)

[Duchess]

A teenage girl ‘died instantly’ when she was sliced in two by a shark while snorkelling near the beach on a paradise island in the Indian Ocean.

The 15-year-old, who lives on the French mainland, was less than 15 feet (five metres) from the shore of the island of Reunion, located off the coast of Madagascar, when the savage attack took place.

Her terrified sister was among those who saw the girl schoolgirl disappear under the water at around 3pm today.
The teenager's body was sliced in two at the torso, and then ‘a part of her body was taken away by the shark,’ said a said Gina Hoarau, the head of public safety on the island. She added: ‘The girls were in an area of St Paul bay where swimming is not allowed. She would have died instantly.

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