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LOS ANGELES, April 25: A man swimming with a group training for a triathlon was killed by a shark off a southern California beach on Friday, fire and life guard officials said, the first fatal attack in the region in nearly 50 years.

The unidentified man, aged between 55 and 60, was swimming with a group of athletes off Solana Beach, north of San Diego, when he was attacked, the officials said.

He was brought to shore by the other swimmers and pronounced dead at the scene.—Reuters