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Hong Kong shark attacks: the blood-soaked chapter in city’s history that saw more shark deaths than any place on Earth




Many questioned why Wong Kwai-yung chose to go swimming at Clear Water Bay First Beach in Hong Kong’s rural Sai Kung district in the early hours of June 13, 1995. It was a decision that would prove fatal for the Hong Kong housewife.

Shark attacks in the city’s eastern waters had already claimed two lives in the previous fortnight, and a total of seven deaths over a four-year stretch. Fears of more carnage that week had reached fever pitch.

But Wong had taken a daily morning plunge for years…



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