Bahamas Press is confirming a reported shark attack in the area of Athol Island just around noon today.
A guest to the island was snorkeling with a supervised group along the coastline of Athol Island, just east of Paradise Island, when the incident occurred.
The arm of the female guest was bitten off, and immediately she was rushed into surgery. She is alive and recovering from the attack.
Three persons were killed and one injured in separate incidents of lightning strike amid heavy rains and thunderstorm in the district.
Eight houses were damaged and nearly 12 cattle also died in different talukas of Nashik after heavy rains occurred yesterday, a source at the collector's office here said.
Nashik city and the talukas of Malegaon, Igatpuri, Trimbakeshwar, Nandgaon and Niphad in the district experienced heavy pre-monsoon showers, leading to water-logging and disruption of power supply at various places.
Samadhan Sumrao (30) and Sunanda Gaikwad (32), from different villages in Malegaon, and Vithal Ughade (25), from Igatpuri, were killed after lightning struck them.
Officials say four people including a teenager and two women were killed when a wild elephant ran amok in southern India early Friday.
District official S. Madhuranthangi said that the elephant strayed into a residential area on the outskirts of the Coimbatore city from a nearby forest and carried out three attacks, sending residents into a state of panic.
Madhuranthangi said: "the elephant first entered a house and attacked a family that was asleep. It lifted a twelve-year girl with its trunk and flung her to the ground, causing her to die on the spot.
"It trampled two women and a 70-year-old man to death in separate attacks later."
She said Five more people injured in the attacks were admitted to hospitals in Coimbatore, where the condition of two wounded was said to be serious.
Hundreds gathered in the area as wildlife and police teams attempted to tranquilise the animal to arrange for its return to the forest.
Hapu with links to Whangarei Harbour differ on how a sperm whale carcass should be disposed of.
To some people connected to Whangarei Harbour a dead sperm whale found on Mair Bank is a shipping and health hazard; to others it is a message from their tupuna, an ancestor.
As far as everyone is concerned, the huge carcass needs to be disposed of - but different hapu with roots in the harbour, its mountains and its coast disagree about who has that right and the way it should be done.
The 15m-long, male sperm whale carcass was dragged ashore at the northern end of Ruakaka Beach after being found on the sand bank near the harbour entry at Marsden Pt on Tuesday morning.
Department of Conservation (DoC) arranged for it be towed in to prevent the incoming tide floating it into the shipping channels.
Kevin Chen of Bayonne was out fishing in New York Harbor on Wednesday when he saw something odd in the distance. So he steered his boat towards it. This was his first time fishing this season, and the last thing he expected was to come upon a dead whale floating in the water.
It had been dead for a while, he figured, because it had already started to stink.
"I never saw anything like it, only on TV and the internet," he said later. "I didn't expect to find it there."
The location was south of Liberty State Park and north of Global Terminals and the Liberty Cruise Port.
Chen called the Bayonne Health Department, leaving a message.
Thousands of bees invaded a bright yellow van parked in New York's midtown, terrifying the van's driver and his companion. Police closed the street for a couple of hours before a beekeeper arrived to vacuum up the bees.
"We were here doing a job and next thing we notice are bees flying to the van," Henrique Paiva told WPIX on Friday. "And we couldn't get out."
The van, just blocks away from Rockefeller Center, contained humidifiers and other equipment.
The carcass of a 10-meter-long whale in a state of advanced decay washed ashore at Surin Beach yesterday morning.
Officers are trying to identify the cause of death and find a place to bury it.
"We received reports that the body of an unidentified marine animal had washed up at about 11am. We have identified it to be a whale, but have yet to learn the exact species," said Patsorn Visudthiwatcharakul, director of Public Health and Environment at the Cherng Talay OrBorTor.
No hazardous substances were found out in the samples taken after the mass die-off of the Caspian seals, Kazinform correspondent reports citing Kuangali Ashakhov, Chief of the Mangistau region's Forestry and Wildlife Territorial Inspection.
As reported earlier, 243 corpses of the dead seals were discovered and gathered in Tupkaragan district of Mangistau region in April. The dead animals were washed up on the shore.
The specialists of Almaty-based Research Institute of Hydrobiology and Virology took tissue samples of 6 species.
"The results of the tests are ready. No hazardous substances were found. We did not see any signs of poisoning. Water and soil samples are also normal," K.Ashakhov said
A woman has been injured and a man was forced to climb onto his car in two separate attacks by a pack of three dogs in Daceyville in Sydney's eastern suburbs today.
CCTV shows three dogs leaping on the man and biting him before he seeks safety on the top of his car parked in the street.
The man, aged in his 50s, suffered minor cuts and bruises to his back and leg.
He told 9NEWS it's the third time the dogs have been seen out on the street in three weeks.
"I called the police because I was worried, they were ferocious" he said.
