Two children have been injured in shark attacks off the coast of Long Island in New York in the first such incidents in the state for 70 years.
A 12-year-old girl and a 13-year-old boy were treated for puncture wounds in separate incidents miles apart along the bay of Fire Island yesterday.
According to BBC News, a tooth, described as being “consistent with a large fish”, was extracted from the boy’s leg and is being analysed.
Shark attacks on humans are extremely rare in the US state of New York.
The young girl, who was later named as Lola Pollina, said she was standing waist-deep in the cold water and described seeing a fin before returning to the beach to discover “my leg was bloody”.
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