A shark has killed one person and seriously injured another at a beach in Australia’s eastern state of New South Wales, rescuers and police have said.<\/p>\n
State police said the two were bitten by the shark early in the morning and that one victim, a woman, died at the scene.<\/p>\n
Ambulance services said a man suffered serious leg injuries and has been airlifted to hospital in a stable condition.<\/p>\n
Surf Life Saving NSW chief executive Steven Pearce described it as “a really, really terrible incident”.<\/p>\n
“This area is so remote, there’s no life guarding services up there at all,” Mr Pearce told local radio 2G.<\/p>\n
Emergency services were called around 6.30am (7.30pm Irish time) to the attack, which took place near a beach in Crowdy Bay, around 250 kilometres north of Sydney.<\/p>\n
There have been more than 1,280 shark incidents around Australia since 1791, of which over 250 resulted in death, according to a database of the predators’ encounters with humans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A shark has killed one person and seriously injured another at a beach in Australia’s eastern state of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":162069,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-162068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162068\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/162069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}