2nd Shark attack in 24 hrs in Russia: Teenager injured in new shark attack in Primorye territory

Okay here’s number 7 or 8 for this last 2 weeks…

Teenager injured in new shark attack in Primorye territory

Yesterday at 09:13 | Interfax-Ukraine
Vladivostok, August 18 (Interfax) – A 16-year-old boy has been injured in the second shark attack in the past 24 hours off the coast of the Khasan district in Russia’s Primorye territory.

“The attack occurred off Zheltukhin Island. The boy suffered injuries to his hips, and an artery was damaged. He has already received emergency medical aid, and a speedboat is now delivering him to a hospital in Vladivostok,” Ruslan Druzhinin, spokesman for the Khasan district’s emergency situations service, told Interfax.

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http://www.kyivpost.com/news/russia/detail/111071/

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