{"id":157157,"date":"2018-07-19T08:04:05","date_gmt":"2018-07-19T08:04:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/sharks-attack-two-children-in-new-york-officials-say\/"},"modified":"2018-07-19T08:04:05","modified_gmt":"2018-07-19T08:04:05","slug":"sharks-attack-two-children-in-new-york-officials-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/sharks-attack-two-children-in-new-york-officials-say\/","title":{"rendered":"Sharks attack two children in New York, officials say"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"AImage copyright Reuters
Image caption What appears to be a shark's tooth was extracted from the leg of a boy in Islip, New York <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Two children have been injured in shark attacks off the coast of Long Island in New York in the first such incidents in the state for 70 years, officials said.<\/p>\n

A 12-year-old girl and a 13-year-old boy were treated for puncture wounds in separate incidents miles apart along the bay of Fire Island on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

A tooth, described as being "consistent with a large fish", was extracted from the boy's leg and is being analysed.<\/p>\n

Shark attacks on humans are extremely rare in the US state of New York. <\/p>\n

The young girl, who was later named as Lola Pollina, said she was standing waist-deep in the cold water and described seeing a fin before returning to the beach to discover "my leg was bloody". <\/p>\n

"I saw something, like, next to me, and I kind of felt pain, and looked and I saw a fin," she said, adding: "We went to the lifeguards, we ran up to them and they kind of bandaged it." <\/p>\n

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She said the shadow in the water appeared to be about 4ft (1.2m) long. <\/p>\n

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    At a press conference following the incidents, chief lifeguard Craig Amarando said that the boy who was also bitten was "a brave boy" who was "very scared". <\/p>\n

    He said that his puncture wounds were bandaged immediately, but paramedics then arrived and removed the dressings to view the wounds. <\/p>\n

    "They confirmed that not only was it a shark bite, but they found one of the teeth still inside the boy."<\/p>\n

    Both victims are expected to fully recover. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Image copyright ReutersImage caption What appears to be a shark's tooth was extracted from the leg of a boy in Islip, New York Two children have been injured in shark<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":157158,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-157157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157157\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/157158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}