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Shark Attack: July 4th Beachgoer Hospitalized After New Incident On Long Island Shark Attack: July 4th Beachgoer Hospitalized After New Incident On Long Island
Shark Attack: July 4th Beachgoer Hospitalized After New Incident On Long Island A second shark attack has been reported in as many days on Long Island, with the latest incident coming on Tuesday afternoon, July 4. It happened around 1:50 p.m. on Independence Day in Suffolk County in the Village of Quogue (marked in red in the image above). According to Lt. Daniel Hartman of the Quogue Police Department, a beachgoer, identified as a 47-year-old man, was swimming in chest deep water at the Quogue Village Beach on Dune Road when he suffered lacerations to his right knee. The shark was not observed, Hartman said, but it was determined the bite was from a "larger…

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