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The Guardian - US
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Ramon Antonio Vargas

Single shark bite led to death of woman off California coast, autopsy shows

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Lovers Point in Pacific Grove, California, on 19 February 2019. Photograph: Valeria Venezia/imageBROKER/Shutterstock

A single, devastating shark bite was fatal for an ocean swimmer whose body was found on a California beach in December, a new autopsy report confirmed.

Erica Fox, 55, drowned after that shark bite broke her pelvis and severed a major artery, according to the findings of the autopsy, which were first reported on by California’s Monterey Herald newspaper.

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