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- A 65-year-old woman was bitten by a shark on Rockaway Beach, New York.
- The attack appears to have caused the city’s first shark bite in decades.
- The woman was swimming alone when she was bitten on her left leg and started screaming for help.
A 65-year-old woman was bitten by a shark on Monday afternoon (7) in Rockaway Beach, New York. The attack appears to be the first confirmed shark bite in a US city in decades. This information is taken from the American newspaper The New York Times.
According to a police report, the woman was swimming alone when she was bitten on her left leg and began screaming for help. Rescuers pulled her out of the water, applied a tourniquet and administered first aid before rescuers took her to hospital.
It is believed that the woman lost about 20 kilograms of meat from the bite. This Tuesday (8), his condition was classified as “serious but stable.”
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“We expect a full recovery for this swimmer,” Parks Department spokeswoman Megan Lalor said in a statement. “Although it was a scary event, we want to remind New Yorkers that shark bites in Rockaway are extremely rare.”
Monday’s shark bite was the first confirmed attack in New York City since the 1950s, according to the Global Shark Attack File, an unofficial database that records such incidents. The last documented shark bite in the city was in 1958, when a man was attacked by a shark after he taunted the animal.
