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A swimmer died after receiving a punch in the belly during an alleged attack of rays on an Australian beach, during a rare fatal encounter with the fish.
The death of this 42-year-old man took place more than ten years after Steve Irwin, a world-renowned "crocodile hunter", was killed by the burning of a stingray barb when he was filming on the famous Great Barrier Reef.
The man was Saturday off the beach at Lauderdale, 23 km from Hobart, Tasmania Island, in the south of the country, when he was injured at the puncture in the lower abdomen, probably by a marine animal, said the police. .
He was brought to the beach by friends but suffered a heart attack and could not be resuscitated, the police added.
"This corresponds to (a ray injury), but further investigation and examination of the deceased could perhaps give a little more concrete facts about it," said Tasmanian Police Constable Brett Bowering. , on Sunday Tasmanian.
"It's a pretty traumatic incident to see."
The locals told Tasmania that the man was swimming frequently at the beach.
Commonly found in tropical waters, stingrays are a flat, diamond-shaped fish that rarely attacks humans
But their beards, at the end of their tail, are covered with poisonous venom that they use to defend themselves when threatened.
Most injuries are caused by people walking on them in shallow water and catching a beard on their ankles, experts say.
Commonly found in tropical waters, stingrays are a flat, diamond-shaped fish that rarely attacks humans
