A surfing boy killed by Shark in Southern Australia at Yorke Peninsula beach.

 

 teenager has been killed in a shark attack at a popular tourist and holiday resort in South Australia, police said. The Incident took place at Yorke Peninsula beach.

Officials said the body was recovered from the water after the attack in Ennis National Park near Ethel Beach in Yorke County.

A local resident said Thursday that the attack on the resort was the first fatal attack he knew of.

It is the latest in a series of recent attacks in South Australian waters.

In a statement, South Australian police said officers were first alerted to the attack at 1.30pm local time (0230 GMT) on Wednesday.

"Unfortunately, the body of a young man was recovered from the water," the police said in a statement.

The group, which did not release information about the boy's age, said authorities were preparing a report for a medical examination.

Ethel Beach is a sandy beach of 400 meters long, popular with tourists and tourists with a wave of 1.5 meters high.

Marty Goody, a local resident who has surfed the area for decades, told ABC News that he believed the victim was "about 30 to 40 yards from shore."

He said there have always been sharks in the area, "but now it seems there are more."

This is the latest shark attack in South Australian waters in recent months.

In May, a preacher died on the Eyre Peninsula and in February a girl was killed by a shark in a river in Perth, the capital of Western Australia.

Australia has more shark attacks than any other country except the United States.

Scientists warn that an increase in shark sightings does not necessarily mean an increase in numbers.