Beaches have been closed in holiday hotspots Whangamatā and Mt Maunganui due to "dangerous conditions" as pre-Christmas bad weather lashes the upper North Island.
A RELATIVE of a woman
mauled to death by a Great White shark marched into the sea to confront the beast, a witness has said.
Kaelah Marlow, 19, suffered bites to one of her legs when she was attacked while swimming in New Zealand but paramedics were unable to save her.
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Kaelah was reportedly dragged from the water alive after the attack.
Paramedics administered CPR to the woman on Waihī Beach, in New Zealand’s Bay of Plenty, to no avail.
Local police said her injuries indicated she had been bitten by a shark, with bite wounds to at least one of her legs.