(CNN) — Three people were bitten by sharks in separate attacks at Texas and Florida beaches on the Fourth of July, authorities said.
Jillian Sykes and Susannah Cullinane, CNNFour people were injured in shark attacks in South Padre Island, Texas, on July 4. A video captured by Katie McMillan shows a shark swimming in shallow water right alongside the beach.Three people were bitten by sharks in separate attacks at Texas and Florida beaches on the Fourth of July, authorities said.
The third person was injured – but not seriously – while trying to assist one of the bite victims, the department told CNN. It is unclear exactly how they were hurt. Two off-duty Border Patrol agents from the Search, Trauma, and Rescue Unit pulled one of the victims out of the water and applied a tourniquet to their leg, according to a US Customs and Border Protection official.
Nereyda Bazaldua told CNN her daughter was one of those bitten Thursday. Bazaldua said her two teenage daughters were in shallow, knee-deep water near the shore playing on boogie boards when they began screaming, “Shark!”
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