06/10/2024

Shark Bites Injure Three in Florida on the Same Day

As a result, one victim had to have part of her arm amputated

After a shark bit a woman on her arm along Florida’s Gulf Coast on Friday, local officials transported her to a trauma center and closed a section of the shoreline to beachgoers, they said.

But in what Walton County Sheriff Michael Adkinson, Jr. later called an "exceedingly rare" day, that was only the first shark strike that afternoon.

Less than two hours later, two teenage girls were waist-deep in the water on another beach in Walton County when a shark bit them, according to the South Walton Fire District.

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