Chilling moment mum accidentally films deadly ‘shark attack’ that killed elderly tourist in background of her beach vid
A MUM did not realise she captured the horror moment an elderly man was mauled to death by a mystery beast while playing with her daughter.
Canadian national Joseph 'Jeff' Bynens, 76, was swimming in the sea when he was attacked off a beach in Mexico.
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Young mum Marlene Luviano was playing on the beach with her daughter when she apparently captured the victim’s final moments.
Her footage could possibly shed light on what animal attacked the 76-year-old.
Marlene said she asked her father to film her playing with their toddler daughter as it was her birthday.
“We were enjoying the morning on the beach and that’s when we heard something in the sea,” she explained.
The clip shows the pair playing on the shoreline before Marlene realises something is not right and leads her daughter away from the shore.
She then asks to stop filming.
In the background, Jeff is seen swimming to a buoy and waving his arm in the air for help before being dragged under the waves, presumably by the marine beast.
By the time the victim was rescued from the sea, he had already “bled to death”, according to Marlene.
Lifeguards have banned people from going into the water while the search goes on and purple flags were erected to indicate the presence of something dangerous in the water.
According to several reports, Jeff's attack took place at about 9:15 am, just minutes after Valerie Haurowitz, 52, from Los Angeles, California, was similarly attacked.
She is reportedly in a stable condition.
Just 10 days earlier, a mother was killed by a shark in Melaque, located west of Mexico City.
María Fernanda Martínez Jiménez went into the sea with her five-year-old child when the shark bit off most of her left leg.
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The 26-year-old was carried to the shore by three beachgoers, but she bled to death on the sand just minutes later.
Her child was unscathed in the shark attack.