A male swimmer in his sixties died when he was mauled and repeatedly dragged beneath the water by a shark metres from a popular beach in Perth.

Police used boats and helicopters to search the ocean off Sorrento Beach, in the city’s northern suburbs, but did not confirm whether the body had been found.

Aerial surveillance spotted a five-metre great white shark in the area, but it was not confirmed whether it was the one that had attacked the swimmer. Jackie Jarvis, the Western Australia fisheries minister, issued an order to destroy the shark.

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