Authorities have ramped up shark patrols at beaches in New York’s Long Island after five people were bitten in just two days by marine animals.
Officials in Long Island’s eastern Suffolk County, where three of the attacks occurred, have increased beach patrols and are using drones to scour the water for potential threats, CNN quoted the Suffolk County Police Department as saying in a statement.
A school of approximately 50 sharks was spotted by a drone near Robert Moses Beach on Tuesday morning 00 the same day a 15-year-old girl was bitten while swimming at the same beach, according to George Gorman, the Long Island Regional Director for New York State Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation.
Though no sharks were seen by the girl or anyone nearby at the time of the incident, the bite was most likely from a shark, Gorman said on Wednesday.
Also Tuesday, a 15-year-old boy was bitten on his foot by a shark while surfing off Fire Island’s Kismet Beach, Suffolk police said.
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