{"id":52764,"date":"2023-02-20T07:44:16","date_gmt":"2023-02-19T22:44:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/feb\/20\/shark-attack-kills-australian-tourist-at-crowded-beach-in-new-caledonia"},"modified":"2023-02-20T07:44:16","modified_gmt":"2023-02-19T22:44:16","slug":"shark-attack-kills-australian-tourist-at-crowded-beach-in-new-caledonia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=52764","title":{"rendered":"Shark attack kills Australian tourist at crowded beach in New Caledonia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Noum\u00e9a beaches closed after man, 59, dies at the scene after being bitten several times<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/live\/2023\/feb\/20\/australia-news-live-wage-theft-education-economy-voice-robodebt-interest-rates-housing-health\">Follow our Australia news live blog for the latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Get our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2022\/oct\/29\/email-newsletters-guardian-australia-best-daily-news-emails-newsletter-free-sign-up-inbox-subscribe-headlines?CMP=cvau_sfl\">morning and afternoon news emails<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/ng-interactive\/2018\/may\/15\/the-guardian-app?CMP=cvau_sfl\">free app<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/series\/full-story?CMP=cvau_sfl\">daily news podcast<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A shark has killed a 59-year-old Australian tourist near a crowded beach in the French Pacific territory of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/new-caledonia\">New Caledonia<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The man was swimming close to a pontoon about 150 metres from the beach in the capital, Noum\u00e9a, on Sunday when the shark attacked, biting him several times, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2022\/oct\/29\/email-newsletters-guardian-australia-best-daily-news-emails-newsletter-free-sign-up-inbox-subscribe-headlines?CMP=copyembed\">Sign up for Guardian Australia\u2019s free morning and afternoon email newsletters for your daily news roundup<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/feb\/20\/shark-attack-kills-australian-tourist-at-crowded-beach-in-new-caledonia\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Noum\u00e9a beaches closed after man, 59, dies at the scene after being bitten several timesFollow our Australia news live blog for the latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastA shark has killed a 59-year-old A&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":206,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,43,65,468,1102,874,1816,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-australia-news","category-environment","category-marine-life","category-new-caledonia","category-pacific-islands","category-sharks","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52764"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52764\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52765,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52764\/revisions\/52765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}