Great white shark kills man off Western Australia

A 38-year-old man was killed by a 13-foot great white shark off Western Australia on Saturday.

The man was bitten just before 10:00 local time at Horseshoe Reef, north-west of Rottnest Island near Perth, local police said.

Aerial footage showed the man being taken to shore by boat, where paramedics and police performed CPR at the Geordie Bay jetty, ABC reported.

"Sadly the man was unable to be revived," a police spokesperson said.

The state's Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development told AFP it received a report that the man had been bitten by the great white shark. The department urged the public to take additional caution in waters around the area.

The attack is the first fatal incident in Western Australia since March last year, when a surfer was mauled off a remote beach.

Since records began in 1791, there have been almost 1,300 recorded shark attacks in Australia, with more than 260 resulting in death.

Earlier this year in January, four shark attacks were reported along the New South Wales coast over two days. One of the victims was 12-year-old Nico Antic, who jumped from a rock into Sydney Harbour and was attacked by a suspected bull shark.