A 35-year-old man was bitten by a suspected 4.5m shark in Western Australia while spearfishing with his family and couldn't be saved by paramedics

Government department says man was in the water around Michaelmas Island, near Albany, when he was bitten by a suspected 4.5-metre shark

Today's tragedy is the Australian state's second fatal shark attack in three weeks.

The man was fishing when he was bitten by a shark, police say.