Echoes of Jaws resounded over the Fourth of July holiday after four swimmers near a Long Island beach were bitten by a suspected shark over the course of two days.
The first two bites occurred on Monday, with the victims being two teenagers, and the latter two on Tuesday, with the victims being men in their 40s, according to NBC New York. In all cases, only minor injuries were reported, though at least three of the victims were taken to a hospital. The incident resulted in officials closing Long Island beaches for about an hour and a half on Tuesday, Long Island Parks Regional Director George Gorman told the New York Post.
The beaches were opened back up at about 9:30 a.m. after surveillance drones tracked the school leaving the area. The attack on a 15-year-old boy on Monday, which occurred while he was surfing, was the first recorded shark attack of this year in Long Island. Police said that he was bit on his left foot, though his toes and heel are intact.
"We noticed the lifeguards started getting everybody out of the water and they closed the beach for about 30 minutes, and then we started hearing from other people that they think somebody got bit by a baby shark," beachgoer George Segura told NBC New York.
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