An Australian man was attacked by a shark in the waters off a remote island resort in the Solomon Islands, officials said Friday.
The 34-year-old from New South Wales state suffered lacerations to the face and neck in the Thursday attack, Australia’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade said in a statement. He was in stable condition at a hospital in the capital Honiara.
The nation of 600,000 people is scattered across 992 small islands in the central Pacific. Solomon Islanders mostly live on subsistence agriculture and fishing.
Associated Press
