A man who was boogie boarding off a Cape Cod beach in the US has died after being attacked by a shark.
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The man was attacked on Saturday and died later at a hospital, becoming the state of Massachusetts' first shark attack fatality in more than 80 years.
Wellfleet Police Lieutenant Michael Hurley said the man, who was in his mid-20s, succumbed to his injuries following the attack in the waters off Newcomb Hollow Beach in Wellfleet at around noon.
He was pronounced dead at Cape Cod Hospital in Hyannis. The beach has been closed to swimming.
The attack is the first fatal shark attack in Massachusetts since 1936, and the second shark attack this season.
A 61-year-old New York man was severely injured on August 15 after fighting off a shark off Truro, about 6km north of Saturday's attack.
He's currently recovering in a Boston hospital.
Australian Associated Press
