A female swimmer has died in a shark attack in the waters off a popular tourist spot on Australia’s east coast, authorities said.

The attack was the second shark fatality in the country's waters this year, about a month after surfer Lance Appleby was killed off the Southern Australia coast, per BBC and CBS News. It was also the third attack in Queensland in less than three months, ABC News reported.

A beloved Year 12 student and avid beach-goer who was killed in a shark attack off Bribie Island has been remembered by her mother as a ‘free spirit’ and ‘shining light’.