Australian police have confirmed that a surfer who went missing was “taken by a shark” after search and rescue teams recovered a surfboard scarred with “bite marks” from the area of the attack. The victim – identified by Australian media as 37-year-old Steven Payne – was mauled by a shark while surfing at Wharton beach in a remote area of Western Australia,

This time around, it looks like a shark is the cause of an ongoing missing person case. In Australia, the police reported that a local who went missing while out surfing for the day appeared to have been taken away by a shark due to evidence found.