{"id":718683,"date":"2026-06-06T09:21:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T09:21:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/718683\/"},"modified":"2026-06-06T09:21:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T09:21:11","slug":"man-dies-in-western-australia-after-shark-attack-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/718683\/","title":{"rendered":"Man dies in Western Australia after shark attack | News"},"content":{"rendered":"

The man was fishing when he was bitten by a shark, police say.<\/p>\n

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Published On 6 Jun 20266 Jun 2026<\/p>\n

A man has died after he was bitten by a shark off the south coast of Michaelmas Island in Western Australia.<\/p>\n

The 35-year-old was attacked while spearfishing with his family close to the town of Albany, police said.<\/p>\n

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The man was treated by paramedics but died of his wounds.<\/p>\n

Police said a 4.5metre (15ft) shark of an unknown species was spotted by a witness near Michaelmas Island, which does not receive many visitors.<\/p>\n

The state\u2019s Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development urged people to take \u201cadditional caution\u201d in the area and to stay abreast of shark sightings.<\/p>\n

This is the fourth shark killing this year in Australia.<\/p>\n

Last month, a man died after being attacked by a great white off Rottnest Island near the city of Perth, and another man died in a shark attack off the coast of Queensland<\/a> in northeast Australia.<\/p>\n

In January, a 12-year-old boy was killed by a shark in Sydney Harbour.<\/p>\n

Australian scientists believe increasingly crowded waters and rising ocean temperatures are shifting sharks\u2019 migratory patterns, which may be contributing to a rise in attacks.<\/p>\n

The majority of shark attacks occur along Australia\u2019s east and southeast coasts, with an average of about 20 incidents recorded each year, according to the Institute of Health and Welfare.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The man was fishing when he was bitten by a shark, police say. Published On 6 Jun 20266…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":718684,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[77,64,63,44],"class_list":["post-718683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-asia-pacific","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/718683","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=718683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/718683\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/718684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=718683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=718683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=718683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}