{"id":239402,"date":"2026-01-18T09:16:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T09:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/239402\/"},"modified":"2026-01-18T09:16:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T09:16:07","slug":"young-boy-fighting-for-life-after-shark-attack-at-sydneys-nielsen-park-in-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/239402\/","title":{"rendered":"Young boy fighting for life after shark attack at Sydney\u2019s Nielsen Park in Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A 12-year-old boy is fighting for his life after a shark attack at a popular Sydney harbour beach on Sunday afternoon.<\/p>\n

The attack happened about 4.30pm at Nielsen Park in Vaucluse, a beach known for both its netted swimming area and open water.<\/p>\n

\n A NSW Ambulance spokesperson said they responded
\n with \u201cmultiple resources\u201d, including intensive care paramedics and aeromedical teams, including the CareFlight helicopter.\n <\/p>\n

\u201cThe patient, a teenage boy, with critical injuries to both of his legs, was transported to Sydney Children\u2019s Hospital, Randwick, in a critical condition,\u201d the spokesperson said.<\/p>\n

A NSW Police spokesperson said the boy is believed to be about 12 years old.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"news.com.au 18 Jan, 2026 07:29 AMQuick Read Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":239403,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[13502,74,11730,1975,89,85,7972,15117,18791,2082,20589,42,78,424,43,44074,8143,10903,7971,10809,1734,7976,40,38,41,39,4741],"class_list":["post-239402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-12yearold","tag-after","tag-afternoon","tag-at","tag-attack","tag-australia","tag-beach","tag-boy","tag-fighting","tag-for","tag-harbour","tag-headlines","tag-in","tag-life","tag-news","tag-nielsen","tag-park","tag-popular","tag-shark","tag-sunday","tag-sydney","tag-sydneys","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-young"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239402","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=239402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239402\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/239403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}