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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
Environment
Edward Helmore

Woman bitten by shark off New York City’s Rockaway beach

Rockaway Beach, in the Queens borough of New York City, where a woman was critically injured when a shark bit her on the leg on 7 August.
Rockaway Beach, in the Queens borough of New York City, where a woman was critically injured when a shark bit her on the leg on 7 August. Photograph: Frank Franklin II/AP

A 65-year-old woman was bitten by a shark on Monday evening off New York’s Rockaway Beach and is in critical condition, the latest in a series of shark attacks off the region’s coast.

The attack was reported at about 5.49pm, according to the New York police department.

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