Shark bites teenager's leg in attack at North Carolina beach

A teen is recovering from injuries to his right leg after a shark attack at a North Carolina beach on Sunday afternoon. North Topsail Beach Police Chief William Younginer told Fox News Digital that he raced to the scene in Onslow County, where 14-year-old Blayne Brown had been bitten. 'I ran up to an emergency on the beach. The officers ran out,' he said. 'There was a 14-year-old male that had been bitten by a shark.' The attack occurred around 12:30 p.m.

Bystanders had pulled him out, and they were wrapping a towel around him and stopping the bleeding, which is the right thing to do,' Younginer said. 'That's what they should have done.' Two officers applied a tourniquet to Brown, and he was transported to nearby Naval Medical Center Camp Lejeune, where he is recovering from his injuries. Younginer shared that shark attacks are extremely rare in the area.

We have some people that step on a stingray, things like that, but we haven't had ,' he said. 'I've been here since 2018. We haven't had a shark bite.' Younginer said Brown is expected to be released from the hospital soon.

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