The victim, who was identified only as a man in his 20s, died from injuries at Cape Cod Hospital after rescuers pulled him from the water and performed emergency first aid including CPR, the Wellfleet Police Department said in a statement. READ MORE: Jaw-dropping great white shark encounter with police: ‘Look at the size of this thing!’

The man, identified by Cape and Islands Assistant District Attorney Tara Miltimore as 26-year-old Arthur Medici of Revere, was attacked around noon off Newcomb Hollow Beach, police said. “It was like right out of that movie ‘Jaws.’ This has turned into Amity Island real quick out here.”

Booth said others on the beach attempted to make a tourniquet while others frantically called 911. The Atlantic White Shark Conservancy, an organization that studies sharks, says shark encounters in which people are injured are as “terrifying as they are rare.”

Massachusetts” last shark attack fatality was in 1936. Hurley says state police and the Cape Cod District Attorney's office are handling the investigation.The beach has been closed to swimming.The attack is the first fatal shark attack in Massachusetts since 1936.A New York man was severely injured Aug. 15 after fighting off a shark off Truro , also on Cape Cod. Police say a man has died after being attacked by a shark off Cape Cod in Massachusetts.Wellfleet Police Lt. Michael Hurley tells The Associated Press a man in his mid-20s succumbed to his injuries following the attack in the waters off Newcomb Hollow Beach in Wellfleet at around noon Saturday.The man was pronounced dead at Cape Cod Hospital in Hyannis.
A shark kills a man in Cape Cod, Massachusetts, the state's first such fatality since 1936.