A woman in her 20s was killed and a man was critically injured in a shark attack at a beach on Australia’s east coast.

The attack took place at a remote beach in Crowdy Bay National Park in New South Wales, about 360 kilometres north of Sydney.

Emergency services responded to reports that two people in their mid-20s were in the waters of Kylies Beach when they were both bitten by a shark at 6:30 a.m. local time on Thursday.

“At this stage, all I’m prepared to say is they were known to each other and they were going for a swim and the shark attacked,” Police Chief Insp. Timothy Bayly told reporters, according to the Associated Press.

He did note that a bystander helped the pair on the beach before paramedics arrived, but the woman died at the scene.

The man was rushed to hospital by he

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