The Foreign Office has said it is investigating reports that a man killed in a shark attack in Australia was British.
The attack took place at the popular tourist destination of Byron Bay on the country's east coast.
Sky's Harriet Hadfield said the victim, named locally as 50-year-old Paul Wilcox, was reportedly originally from Warwickshire but moved to Australia with his wife some years ago.
This has yet to be confirmed by the Foreign Office, which said in a statement: "We are aware of reports of the death of a British national in Australia and are looking into them."
Mr Wilcox was reportedly from England originally. Pic: Refocused Learning Hadfield said: "The most horrifying thing that we do know about this is that his wife was actually on the beach when it happened and so we understand she may have witnessed the attack.
"There are some really dramatic accounts coming out of Australia now from people who saw it happening, including one man who was paddle-boarding at the time and said it was an incredibly violent scene."
Police confirmed in a statement that the victim was "bitten on the right leg by what is believed to be a shark".
"He was seen floating in shallow water, close to the shore line, and dragged on to the beach," the statement said.
Police have yet to formally identify the man or establish what he had been doing in the water.
Byron Bay is a renowned surfing location near Cape Byron, the most easterly point of the Australian mainland 500 miles (800km) north of Sydney.
Paramedics declared the man dead at the scene The death is the first blamed on a shark in Australia since April 3 when a 63-year-old woman was killed near the village of Tathra, 210 miles (340km) south of Sydney.
Although sharks are common off Australia's coast, the country has averaged fewer than two fatal attacks per year in recent decades.
Two men were killed in shark attacks off the east and west coasts in the space of a week in November last year. They were the only fatalities in 2013.
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