Shark Attack Incident

Yule Island, PAPUA NEW GUINEA

July 31, 1956

Non-fatal

DateAug-1956

TypeUnprovoked

CountryPAPUA NEW GUINEA

LocationYule Island

ActivityFishing

InjuryLeg severed, but survived

VictimTsira Native, Male

SourceV.M. Coppleson (1958), pp.49-51 & 264; A.M. Rapson, p. 149

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