You wouldn’t expect a shark attack in New York. But a 50-year-old woman was seriously injured by such a predatory fish on a beach in the metropolis. The shark bit the woman who was in the water at Rockaway Beach in the borough of Queens in the leg, the New York City authorities said. She was taken to the hospital and is in “critical but stable” condition.
According to various databases, the incident on Monday afternoon (local time) was the first shark attack on a New York city beach in decades, it said. As a precaution, the beach was initially closed for a day, and the fire brigade and police would search the sea for sharks from the air.
In recent years, more sharks have been sighted in the Atlantic around the metropolis of New York and the offshore island of Long Island, partly because the water quality has improved. Shark attacks, however, remained rare.
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