US teen bitten by shark

A 17-YEAR-OLD boy was attacked by a shark on North Carolina's Outer Banks, the second such attack in as many days and the sixth attack in the past two weeks.
ACCORDING to a post on its Facebook page, the National Park Service says rescue personnel and park rangers responded to the boy, who received what they described as injuries to his right calf, buttocks and both hands on Saturday.
Officials said the boy was swimming with others when he was bitten, but no one else was hurt. The park service said the unidentified teenager was treated at the scene before being airlifted to a Norfolk, Virginia, hospital. On Friday, a North Carolina man was bitten on his back and leg in Avon while playing in the surf with his children. A 43-year-old man was also attacked by a shark near Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, on Friday. Both men were treated for non-life threatening injuries. Sharks have attacked several children along North Carolina's coast this month, including a 13-year old girl who lost her left arm below the elbow and a 16-year old boy who lost his left arm above the elbow, about 90 minutes apart, at Oak Island