Islam Uddin<\/p>\n
16 May 2026\u2022Update: 16 May 2026<\/p>\n
A 38-year-old man was killed by a shark on Rottnest Island in Western Australia, local media reported on Saturday.<\/p>\n
Emergency officials said the victim was airlifted by a rescue helicopter to a hospital in critical condition, where he died during treatment, local broadcaster SBS News reported.<\/p>\n
Police Sergeant Michael Wear at Rottnest Island Police Station said the man’s injuries were horrific, adding that the victim was bitten on the lower legs.<\/p>\n
That attack was one of four recorded in the span of two days, which prompted officials to close dozens of the city’s beaches.<\/p>\n
It marks the city’s third recent shark-related death.<\/p>\n
Rottnest Island is a major tourist destination popular with swimmers, divers and holidaymakers.<\/p>\n
Australian scientists believe increasingly crowded waters and rising ocean temperatures are swaying sharks’ migratory patterns, which may be contributing to a rise in attacks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Islam Uddin 16 May 2026\u2022Update: 16 May 2026 A 38-year-old man was killed by a shark on Rottnest…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":674089,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44,296002],"class_list":["post-674765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news","tag-sitekeywords"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=674765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674765\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/674089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=674765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=674765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=674765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}