An 8-year-old boy was bitten by a shark this weekend in North Carolina, the third reported attack in the state this month. The child was swimming near South Beach on Bald Head Island on Sunday when the shark attacked, leaving him with nonlife-threatening puncture wounds to the leg, said Chris McCall, the village manager of the island. A week ago, Austin Reed, 19, was bitten by a shark while surfing at Ocean Isle Beach. And early this month, Paige Winter, 17, was attacked while swimming near Atlantic Beach in Fort Macon State Park. Only three shark attacks were reported in North Carolina in all of 2018, according to the International Shark Attack File, a scientific database of shark attacks housed at the Florida Museum of Natural History.

Source: International New York Times June 17, 2019 20:48 UTC