A surfer is missing after a shark attack at a popular beach in Western Australia's remote south-east.
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00:00It is believed that at about 12.30 this afternoon a man was attacked while surfing at Wharton
00:06Beach about an hour's drive east of Esperance on WA's far south coast.
00:12The beach has since been closed and behind me emergency services personnel are currently
00:17looking for the man.
00:18Witnesses the ABC spoke to say they saw a man on the line up in the surf with several
00:24other people when a large great white shark believed to be estimated at being larger than
00:29four metres attacked.
00:32Emergency services were then called but the search for the man does continue.
00:35This comes about five years after the last fatal shark attack in the Esperance region
00:40and is just a real blow to the community with witnesses saying that the incident left them
00:45in a state of shock.