A man has been killed by a shark at a popular holiday island.<\/p>\n
The fatal attack happened at Rottnest Island, near Perth, about 9.55am on Saturday.<\/p>\n
“A 38-year-old man was in the water at Horseshoe Reef when he was believed to have been bitten by a shark,” Western Australian Police said.<\/p>\n
The man was taken from the water and transported by boat to a jetty at Geordie Bay on the north side of the island.<\/p>\n
Paramedics treated the critically injured man.<\/p>\n
“Sadly, the man was unable to be revived,” the police spokeswoman said.<\/p>\n
A 5m white shark was spotted 80m offshore about the time of the attack, according to Surf Life Saving WA.<\/p>\n
Television news footage showed paramedics and police treating the wounded man on the jetty.<\/p>\n
It also showed a Water Police boat tethered to a smaller boat equipped with spearfishing gear.<\/p>\n
The Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development urged people to take extra caution in the Geordie Bay area.<\/p>\n
Rottnest Island, which is 11km long and 4.5km wide, is a popular tourist destination 19km off the coast of Fremantle.<\/p>\n
Police will prepare a report for the coroner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man has been killed by a shark at a popular holiday island. The fatal attack happened at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":430459,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[85,42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-430458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","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\/430458","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=430458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430458\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/430459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=430458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=430458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=430458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}