{"id":443033,"date":"2026-05-24T13:49:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T13:49:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/443033\/"},"modified":"2026-05-24T13:49:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T13:49:14","slug":"man-dies-after-shark-attack-in-far-north-queensland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/443033\/","title":{"rendered":"Man dies after shark attack in Far North Queensland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/4P6KH0X_image_crop_6063.jpeg\" width=\"1050\" height=\"697\" alt=\"no caption\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">\nFile photo.<br \/>\nPhoto: 123rf\n<\/p>\n<p>A man has died following a shark attack near Hull Heads in Far North Queensland.<\/p>\n<p>Emergency services were called to the Hull River boat ramp, 160 kilometres south of Cairns, just after 12pm local time, after receiving reports of a shark attack.<\/p>\n<p>A 39-year-old man is understood to have been attacked while at Kennedy Shoal, a reef site, before being retrieved from the water.<\/p>\n<p>He later died from his injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Queensland Police said a report will be prepared for the coroner.<\/p>\n<p>It is the second fatal shark attack in Australian waters in as many weeks, after the death of a 38-year-old Perth man off Rottnest Island on 16 May.<\/p>\n<p>Steven Mattaboni was attacked about a kilometre offshore while spearfishing with friends at Horseshoe Reef off the WA coast.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; ABC News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"File photo. Photo: 123rf A man has died following a shark attack near Hull Heads in Far North&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":443034,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[48,47,42,43,49,46,44,45,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-443033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-audio","tag-current-affairs","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-podcasts","tag-public-radio","tag-radio-new-zealand","tag-rnz","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443033","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=443033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443033\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/443034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=443033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=443033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=443033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}