A 13-year-old surfing champion was killed in a shark attack off the coast of the Indian Ocean island of Reunion, NBC News reported. Elio Canestri was attacked by a shark while out surfing with seven others Sunday morning, a spokesman for the French territory's rescue services agency told NBC News. As Canestri prepared to surf a wave, the shark bit the teen's midsection and flung him around in the water, the spokesman added. Witnesses were treated for trauma. There have been 16 shark attacks, seven of them fatal, in the island's waters over the past four years.

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