Vidant Medical Center—with permission from the teenager's family—named the victim as Paige Winter, a 17-year-old girl. 'She is in good condition,' officials said.
A teenager was airlifted to hospital yesterday after being injured in a shark attack at a beach close to North Carolina's Fort Macon State Park, officials say.responders arrived on the scene in Atlantic Beach at around 12:20 p.m. The girl, 17, was taken to Vidant Medical Center in Greenville. Initial reports from officials said she suffered"severe injuries to her leg and hands from a marine animal bite.
On Sunday, officials from Atlantic Beach Fire Department said Winter had"deep lacerations to her leg, pelvis and hand areas" after the attack, not immediately mentioning the shark."will lose one leg above the knee and some fingers. "It looked like she was belly crawling on the beach and officials were running towards her and whistles were blowing. Everyone was screaming and they quickly got... out of the water."
He said:"Any type of marine animal attack, whether it be some type of fish or stingrays—more often—those are fairly rare. Especially when you talk about a shark bite. We do not experience that very often, nor does anyone else in the United States. I think the average for the year is between 15 and 16." He said a marine biologist would be called in to evaluate the case.
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