{"id":896174,"date":"2026-09-18T05:26:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T05:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/896174\/"},"modified":"2026-09-18T05:26:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T05:26:11","slug":"man-fatally-attacked-by-shark-as-emergency-services-shut-sorrento-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/896174\/","title":{"rendered":"Man fatally attacked by shark as emergency services shut Sorrento Beach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">Emergency services have descended on popular Sorrento Beach after a fatal shark attack.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">St John WA confirmed that three crews had been called to the scene under priority one conditions about 10.15am on Friday, but they \u201chave since been stood down\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">WA Police have confirmed water police are also on the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">Surf Life Saving WA reported a shark interaction in the area at 10.20am.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">A witness near the scene told PerthNow that the incident had unfolded near Raleigh Road, near popular waterfront spot Hillarys Boat Harbour.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">The beach has been closed to swimmers and people in the area have been advised to take caution.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">It comes just days after 56-year-old surfer Mel Ismail was <a class=\"css-445i33-StyledTextLink ezegcyi0\" data-link-type=\"article-inline\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.perthnow.com.au\/wa\/regional\/glenfield-beach-shark-attack-man-bitten-confirmed-as-geraldton-surfer-mel-ismail-c-22868392\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">mauled by a shark at Glenfield Beach<\/a> in Geraldton, 420km north of Perth, on Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Emergency services have descended on popular Sorrento Beach after a fatal shark attack. St John WA confirmed that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":896175,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[8984,43,44,1042,41,39,42,40,45],"class_list":["post-896174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-disaster-and-emergency","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-sharks","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-wa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896174","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=896174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896174\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/896175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=896174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=896174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=896174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}