Four people are believed to have been injured by the same shark while in waters off the southern coast of Texas on the Fourth of July, officials said.
Texas Game Warden Capt. Chris Dowdy told ABC Weslaco, Texas, affiliate KRGV that four separate incidents involving the shark, including two bites, were reported off South Padre Island.
In one of the incidents, the South Padre Island Police Department said it received a call reporting a “severe” shark bite to the leg at around 11 a.m. local time Thursday near the 4100 block of Gulf Boulevard.
First responders from the South Padre Island police and fire departments provided treatment at the scene before the man was transported to Valley Regional Medical Center in Brownsville, police said.
Footage from a beachgoer who witnessed the incident showed a shark swimming near the shore in the vicinity of that attack.
A second person was bitten by the shark, while one was grazed and another injured fending off the shark, Dowdy told KRGV.
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