WASHINGTON (Web Desk) – Two US teenagers have been severely injured in two separate shark attacks that happened within hours of each other off the same North Carolina stretch of coast on Sunday, The Independent reported.
A 14-year-old girl was attacked shortly after 4pm local time in the coastal waters of Oak Island. Her screams alerted a man swimming nearby, who came to her aid, but she had suffered severe wounds to her left arm and leg.
Around 90 minutes later a 16-year-old boy was attacked by a shark on the same stretch of beach, around two miles east of where the girl had been found. He also lost an arm.
Emergency aid is given to the 14-year-old girl A helicopter was launched to search for the shark while sheriff’s deputies were deployed to the beach, warning people to get out of the water.
Mayor Betty Wallace told Reuters News Agency the 14-year-old girl was flown by helicopter to a hospital about 30 miles north of the beach in Wilmington, but that she ended up losing part of her arm and could still lose her leg.
The Mayor said that authorities had still been attending to the girl when the 16-year-old boy was attacked, and that he lost his left arm.
Mayor Wallace said she had no details about the circumstances of either attack, and did not know how far from shore either teenager had been, or what they had been doing in the water.
