When Charlize Zmuda’s car wasn’t in the driveway of her family’s Bribie Island home, her father Steve just assumed the ...

A TEENAGE girl who was mauled to death in a horrifying shark attack has been named as a “shining light” of the community by ...

A teenage girl has been killed in a shark attack at a popular surfing beach off Bribie Island, north of Brisbane.

Photos online show she had her school formal in recent days and was a keen member of the island surf lifesaving club.

Hundreds of people have held a heartbreaking vigil for 17-year-old Charlize Zmuda on the same beach where she was killed by a shark.

Paramedics rushed to treat the teenager who was swimming off a beach in Queensland, but say she succumbed to serious injuries to her upper body.

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 ...

Charlize Zmuda was swimming at Woorim Beach at Bribie Island when she was injured. Emergency services were called to the unpatrolled beach just before 5pm on Monday, but she could not be saved.

A teen has died in a shark attack at Woorim Beach, Queensland, marking the second fatal encounter in just over a month.