{"id":155645,"date":"2025-11-27T02:22:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T02:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/155645\/"},"modified":"2025-11-27T02:22:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T02:22:09","slug":"woman-dies-in-shark-attack-off-nsw-coast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/155645\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman dies in shark attack off NSW coast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A shark killed a woman and seriously injured a man off the Australian east coast on Thursday, NSW police said.<\/p>\n<p>Emergency services were called to the beach in Crowdy Bay, 360 kilometers north of Sydney, following reports that two people in their 20s had been bitten by a shark at 6.30am (local time), a police statement said.<\/p>\n<p>Witnesses helped the pair before ambulance paramedics arrived, but the woman died at the scene, police said.<\/p>\n<p>The man had sustained \u201cserious injuries\u201d and was flown by helicopter to a hospital in a critical condition, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Police have not detailed the circumstances of the attack.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/crowdy-bay-maps-grab-JDHBIDP2ARC7FHE24XHG4L4AIA.png\" alt=\"The attack happened at a beach at Crowdy Bay, north of Newscastle and Sydney.\" width=\"800\" height=\"507\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"ImageMetadata__MetadataParagraph-sc-hi5x8q-0 cWTYyG image-metadata\">The attack happened at a beach at Crowdy Bay, north of Newscastle and Sydney. (Source: Google Maps)<\/p>\n<p>Police said they would liaise with experts to determine the species of the shark responsible.<\/p>\n<p>The beach in the Crowdy Bay National Park had been closed to swimmers after the attack.<\/p>\n<p>The national park was known for beach camping, fishing spots and hiking tracks.<\/p>\n<p>A shark fatally mauled a man in his 50s off a Sydney beach in September. Two sections of the man&#8217;s surfboard were recovered from the scene at Long Reef Beach.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-greyDarkFaded\">The morning&#8217;s headlines in 90 seconds, including a terrifying apartment complex fire in Hong Kong, mortgage rates head down, and NZ\u2019s content creator of the year. (Source: 1News)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A shark killed a woman and seriously injured a man off the Australian east coast on Thursday, NSW&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":155646,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[50,85,42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-155645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-animals","tag-australia","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155645\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/155646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}