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This is an archive article published on June 28, 2015
Shark bites boy at NC Outer Banks
According to Rescue personnel, the 17-year-old suffered injuries to right calf, buttocks and both hands. This is the sixth such attack in two weeks.
FILE – In this June 14, 2015, file photo, emergency responders assist a teenage girl at the scene of a shark attack in Oak Island, NC. (Source: AP)
Officials say a 17-year-old boy is the latest victim of a shark attack off North Carolina’s coast, the second attack in as many days and the sixth attack in the past two weeks.
Rescue personnel and park rangers responded to the boy, who received what they described as injuries to his right calf, buttocks and both hands while swimming in the Outer Banks on Saturday, according to a post on the National Park Service’s Facebook page. The boy was swimming with others when he was bitten, but no one else was hurt, officials said.
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The unidentified teenager was treated at the scene before being airlifted to a Norfolk, Virginia, hospital, the park service said.
On Friday, a North Carolina man was bitten on his back and leg in Avon while playing in the surf with his children. A 43-year-old man was also attacked by a shark near Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, on Friday. Both men were treated for non-life threatening injuries.
Sharks have attacked several children along North Carolina’s coast this month, including a 13-year old girl who lost her left arm below the elbow and a 16-year old boy who lost his left arm above the elbow, about 90 minutes apart, at Oak Island.
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