The Queensland Ambulance Service responded to a 'serious shark bite incident' involving the 17-year-old victim at Woorim Beach, north of Brisbane, at around 4:45 p.m. local time on Monday, Feb. 3, The Sydney Morning Herald reported.

On 2 January, surfer Lance Appleby was killed by a shark at Granites Beach in South Australia. Just days earlier, on 28 December, 40-year-old chaplain Luke Walford was fatally bitten while spearfishing near the Keppel Bay Islands in Queensland.