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07-05-2024, 10:54 PM
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Shark Bite
Woman bitten by shark off New York city’s Rockaway beach. A 65-year-old woman was bitten by a shark on Monday evening off New York’s Rockaway Beach and is in critical condition, the latest in a series of shark attacks off the region’s coast. The woman was bitten on the leg and brought to a hospital in the Jamaica section of Queens to be treated. Officers saved her life by applying a tourniquet on her wound. Separately, the New York Post reported that the woman is suspected to have lost “approximately 20lbs of flesh” from a bite above the knee on her left leg that was inflicted when she was swimming alone off the shore. Her bite prompted lifeguards to clear the water of swimmers as helicopter police searched unsuccessfully for the shark, the New York parks department said in a statement. The beach was closed on Tuesday for swimming and surfing after what was described as the first known shark bite there since 1953. |