{"id":587071,"date":"2026-05-16T09:32:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T09:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/587071\/"},"modified":"2026-05-16T09:32:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T09:32:08","slug":"man-killed-by-13ft-great-white-shark-in-western-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/587071\/","title":{"rendered":"Man killed by 13ft great white shark in Western Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The department urged the public to take &#8220;additional caution&#8221; in waters around the area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The attack is the first fatal incident in Western Australia since March last year, when a surfer was mauled off a remote beach.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Since records began in 1791, there have been almost 1,300 recorded shark attacks in Australia, with more than 260 of them resulting in death. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Earlier this year in January, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c0err023g5lo\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">four shark attacks<\/a> were reported along the New South Wales coast over two days. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">One of the victims included <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c2k98ql703no\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">12-year-old Nico Antic<\/a> who jumped from a rock into the Sydney Harbour and was attacked by a suspected bull shark. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He died a week later, with his parents saying in a joint statement they were &#8220;heartbroken&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The department urged the public to take &#8220;additional caution&#8221; in waters around the area. The attack is the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":587072,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-587071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=587071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587071\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/587072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=587071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=587071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=587071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}