HUNDREDS of mourners have gathered to honour Charlize Zmuda, a 17-year-old surf lifesaver who was killed in a shark attack ...

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.

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

Family and friends gather on Bribie Island to remember their “shining light”, as it was confirmed a shark had been seen earlier in the area, and drumlines were baited.

Charlize Zmuda, who died after being attacked by a shark in Australia, had only just attended her school formal. The mother ...

Charlize Zmuda was swimming about 100m offshore when she was bitten by the shark at Woorim Beach late on Monday afternoon.

The attack was the second shark fatality in the country's waters this year, about a month after surfer Lance Appleby was ...

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.