Overview
- The state shark-incident committee (CEMIT) confirmed the fatal bite at Praia do Chifre in Olinda, where four shark-risk warning signs are posted.
- The victim, identified as Deivson Rocha Dantas, was taken to Hospital Tricentenario with severe right-leg injuries, and physician Levy Dalton said he arrived deceased.
- Pernambuco’s government announced it will resume microchip-based shark monitoring, restarting a system that had been suspended for about 11 years.
- Relatives alleged a delayed ambulance response and described friends pulling the boy from the water, claims reported by local media.
- Since 1992, officials have recorded 81 shark attacks and 26 deaths in Pernambuco, concentrated in a 33-kilometre stretch between Recife and Olinda, with Chifre’s last documented case in 2023 injuring a surfer.