{"id":674849,"date":"2026-05-16T14:25:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T14:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/674849\/"},"modified":"2026-05-16T14:25:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T14:25:09","slug":"man-dies-after-shark-bite-off-western-australia-coast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/674849\/","title":{"rendered":"Man dies after shark bite off Western Australia coast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man attacked by a shark off Western Australia&#8217;s coast on Saturday died of his injuries, police said, in what is the second fatal shark attack in Australia so far this year.<\/p>\n<p>The 38-year-old victim, yet to be identified, was bitten on Saturday morning at Horseshoe Reef near Rottnest Island, about 31 kilometres (19.2 miles) west of state capital Perth, police said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The man was taken to shore but could not be revived, police said, adding that a report would be prepared for the coroner.<\/p>\n<p>State authorities advised people to take extra caution in the water at Rottnest Island, a popular tourist destination.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man attacked by a shark off Western Australia&#8217;s coast on Saturday died of his injuries, police said,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":674850,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44,677,176534],"class_list":["post-674849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news","tag-oceania","tag-rottnest-island"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674849","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=674849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674849\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/674850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=674849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=674849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=674849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}