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UPDATE: 3.15pm Police will continue to patrol the beach area of Wedge Island, for at least two more days, after the fatal shark attack on Saturday.

The latest fatal shark bite on a surfer, north of Perth, is another in a string of terrible and random tragedies that have befallen Western Australia in the past two years.

The shark that killed a young surfer off the West Australian coast yesterday may have been in the area where the fatal attack happened for up to four days.

Questions are being raised about whether the great white shark should remain protected following the death of a surfer off WA.

The girlfriend of a surfer who was killed by a shark off the Western Australian coast yesterday has posted a moving tribute on his Facebook page.

A search-and-destroy mission is continuing for a great white shark up to five metres long that killed a surfer off Western Australia's southwest coast.

THE 24-year-old victim was savaged by a great white shark off Western Australia.

Ben Linden, 24, was bitten in half by the Great White shark while surfing near Wedge Island, off the coast of Perth

TRIBUTES are flowing today for WA's latest shark attack victim Ben Linden.