{"id":8733,"date":"2025-02-04T02:01:01","date_gmt":"2025-02-04T02:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/04\/teenage-girl-killed-in-shark-attack-while-swimming-at-australia-tourist-spot\/"},"modified":"2025-02-04T02:01:01","modified_gmt":"2025-02-04T02:01:01","slug":"teenage-girl-killed-in-shark-attack-while-swimming-at-australia-tourist-spot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/04\/teenage-girl-killed-in-shark-attack-while-swimming-at-australia-tourist-spot\/","title":{"rendered":"Teenage girl killed in shark attack while swimming at Australia tourist spot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\">            A female swimmer has died in a shark attack in the waters off a popular tourist spot on Australia\u2019s east coast, authorities said.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\">            Emergency crews were called to the Woorim Beach at Bribie Island, about 80 kms (50 miles) north of Brisbane around 5 p.m. local time on Monday following reports of a serious shark bite incident, Queensland state police said on Monday.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\">            \u201cThe female was swimming when she was bitten by a shark \u2026 the female sustained life-threatening injuries and succumbed to those injuries,\u201d a police spokesperson said in an email.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\">            Police did not disclose the age of the victim though Australian media widely reported the victim was a 17-year-old girl.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\">            Christopher Potter, a resident, said the beach is frequently used by swimming groups through the day.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\">            \u201cIt\u2019s known there are a lot of sharks around Bribie, but this close to shore, it\u2019s still a shock,\u201d he told Australian public broadcaster ABC News.    <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div>This post appeared first on cnn.com<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A female swimmer has died in a shark attack in the waters off a popular tourist spot on Australia\u2019s east coast, authorities said. Emergency crews were called to the Woorim Beach at Bribie Island, about 80 kms (50 miles) north of Brisbane around 5 p.m. local time on Monday following reports of a serious shark [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":8734,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8733\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}