The U.S. Coast Guard is warning people to stay out of the water off of Texas' South Padre Island after multiple shark attacks and sightings.
Three people were bitten by a shark off a Southern Texas beach in what the city's fire chief called an unprecedented incident on the Fourth of July, the same day another person was bitten by a shark in Florida, officials said. In Texas, three people were bitten in the city of South Padre Island, located on a barrier island near Brownsville, and the shark was later located and 'pushed out to deeper water,' Fire Chief Jim Pigg said.
Pigg said that it has not been determined what type of shark was involved and that an investigation was underway. Lifeguards were encouraging people in South Padre Island, a beach town of around 2,000 on the barrier island of the same name, to stay out of the water, or at least go no further than knee-deep, Pigg said. After the shark was spotted and pushed out to deeper water, there had been no further sightings but Pigg said officials would stay vigilant.
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