10-year-old boy bitten by shark at Cocoa Beach

Child was airlifted to Arnold Palmer Hospital in Orlando

COCOA BEACH, Fla. – A 10-year-old boy was bitten by a shark while swimming at Cocoa Beach.

He was swimming in waist deep water, with his mother, when the shark bit his lower right leg.

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He sustained deep lacerations by the shark, which lifeguards said they believe to be 4-5 feet in length.

The boy was air-lifted from Cape Canaveral Hospital to Arnold Palmer Hospital in Orlando.


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