65-year-old woman killed in shark attack off South African coast

A 65-year-old woman was killed on Tuesday in a shark attack while swimming off South Africa’s southeastern coast, police said. Officers were called to Orient Beach in KuGompo City, formerly East London, at around 7 a.m. local time, where they found the woman’s body, Eastern Cape Police spokesperson Col. Siphokazi Mawisa told The Associated Press.“The Buffalo City Metropolitan Municipality is deeply saddened to confirm that a fatal shark attack occurred at the Orient Beach this morning, resulting in the tragic loss of a swimmer,” municipal spokesman Luzuko Buku said in a statement to local broadcaster SABC. 2:05 ‘A spectacular sighting’: Basking shark visits Nova Scotia Fellow swimmer Mike Loewe told SABC that members of an open-water swimming group responded to the woman’s distress signal and brought her ashore. A medic in the group tried to save her, but she was declared dead at the scene, he said. Story continues below advertisement “She liked to swim solo,” Loewe said. “She was courageous.”The victim has been identified as Janine Lochrenberg, a retired nuclear radiographer and musician, according to local outlet News24.Following the attack, the municipality closed Orient Beach a...