A boy is in critical condition after being mauled by a shark amid a spate of attacks in Sydney, Australia. The 12-year-old suffered severe injuries to both his legs while rock jumping on Shark Beach in the eastern suburb of Vaucluse on Sunday. New South Wales’ marine area chief, Joseph McNulty, said the boy’s friends acted bravely to get him out of the water, despite “very confronting injuries for those boys to see,” the BBC reports. On Monday, a man in his 20s was attacked and left in critical condition at Manly Beach on the city’s northern shore and was rushed to Royal North Shore Hospital, according to The Guardian. “All beaches on the Northern Beaches are closed until further notice,” police said. On Dee Why beach, an 11-year-old surfer also had his board bitten several times on Monday but was pulled from the water unharmed. The attacks are suspected to have been caused by torrential rain flushing nutrients into the water, creating what McNulty described as a “perfect storm environment.” An eastern suburbs resident told the Daily Beast that since the attacks, “people are definitely more wary about swimming off the beaches without shark nets.”
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