{"id":73334,"date":"2025-10-12T06:14:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-12T06:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/73334\/"},"modified":"2025-10-12T06:14:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T06:14:08","slug":"teen-in-critical-condition-after-shark-attack-in-queenslands-far-north","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/73334\/","title":{"rendered":"Teen in critical condition after shark attack in Queensland\u2019s Far North"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nathan Schmidt<\/p>\n<p>news.com.au\u00b7<\/p>\n<p>12 Oct, 2025 02:53 AMQuick Read<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription. Subscribe now to listen.Subscribe now<\/p>\n<p>\u200c<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\" class=\"flex cursor-pointer items-center gap-1.5 text-black\" data-test-ui=\"social-link--bookmark-above\" aria-label=\"bookmark\" id=\"social-link--bookmark-above\">Save<\/a>Share this articleCopy LinkEmailFacebookTwitter\/XLinkedInReddit<\/p>\n<p data-test-ui=\"figure__caption\">A teenage boy has been rushed to hospital with life-threatening abdominal injuries from a shark attack in Queensland. Photo \/ 123rf<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">A teenage boy has been rushed to hospital with life-threatening abdominal injuries after he was attacked by a shark in Queensland\u2019s far north.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n         Emergency services were called to the Cook Esplanade at 6.23pm on Saturday local time after reports a boy in his mid-teens had been bitten by a shark<br \/>\n         in the water.\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"PIBTdnNRHybHVehKG\" style=\"display:none\">The teen suffered \u201csignificant abdominal injuries\u201d and was transported to Thursday Island Hospital.<\/p>\n<p class=\"PIBTdnNRHybHVehKG\" style=\"display:none\">He was later flown to Townsville University Hospital in a life-threatening condition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"PIBTdnNRHybHVehKG\" style=\"display:none\"> Today, the teen reportedly remained at the hospital in a critical condition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nathan Schmidt news.com.au\u00b7 12 Oct, 2025 02:53 AMQuick Read Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":73335,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[13837,74,89,1344,1558,1239,11728,528,42,2241,78,104,21737,43,529,57644,11426,7971,5163,10706,40,38,41,39,102],"class_list":["post-73334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-abdominal","tag-after","tag-attack","tag-attacked","tag-been","tag-condition","tag-critical","tag-far","tag-headlines","tag-hospital","tag-in","tag-injuries","tag-lifethreatening","tag-news","tag-north","tag-queenslands","tag-rushed","tag-shark","tag-teen","tag-teenage","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-with"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73334","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=73334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73334\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}