Fatal shark attack in Australia

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A swimmer spent his final moments screaming for help and struggling to fight off a massive four-and-a-half metre long great white shark before being eaten alive as horrified witnesses watched on.

The man was taking an afternoon swim off Little Bay Beach when his life came to a tragic end in Sydney's first fatal shark attack in 60 years.

Regarded by locals as one of the best kept secrets in Sydney's east, the beach was packed with dozens of swimmers, paddle boaders and rock fishermen at the time.

They were alerted of the danger by the swimmer's ear-piercing screams but could do nothing but watch on in shock as the monster shark ripped the swimmer into two and 'swallow parts of his body'.

'Footage clearly shows a body, half a body being taken by a shark,' a police officer told colleagues over a scanner when human remains were found an hour later.

'Someone just got eaten by a shark. Oh man! Oh no! That's insane. That's a great white shark,' one fisherman can be heard yelling in footage.

'F*** man, I heard a scream and the shark was just chomping on his body and the body was in half just off the rocks here.

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