Shark Attacks In Florida Leave Girl, 11, And Woman, 57, Hospitalized Following Two Separate Incidents Along The East Coast

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An 11-year-old girl and a 57-year-old woman were hospitalized after separate shark attacks in Florida over the weekend.

The girl was attacked Saturday around 5:45pm as she was swimming in shallow water at Huguenot Memorial Park in Jacksonville, Action News Jax reported.

A shark bit the girl on her back, arm and hand, and was taken to a Jacksonville hospital where she spent nine hours in the trauma unit, the news station reported.

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These pictures show the ripped and bloodied clothes belonging to an 11-year-old girl who was bitten by a shark Saturday, in the first of two shark attacks in Florida over the weekend

#3 Mary Marcus, 57, was bitten in the thigh Sunday as she was swimming about 100 yards off Vero Beach, pictured

#4 The second shark attack occurred on Sunday at Vero Beach, about 200 miles south of the first incident

The girl had five teeth marks on her back, stitches on her hand, and a severed tendon in her left arm, the girl's mother told Action News Jax. Despite her injuries, the girl was in a good mood and reportedly gave first responders high gives with her uninjured hand.

The second shark attack occurred on Sunday at Vero Beach, about 200 miles south of the first incident.

The 57-year-old woman, whom authorities identified as Mary Marcus, was bitten in the thigh around 4:30 pm.

Lifeguards called the attack a 'bite and release' and said it happened about 100 yards off the beach, in an area between two reefs known as 'shark alley' where sharks are known to hunt for bait fish, TC Palm reported.

The woman was able to swim ashore and walk to a beach chair before asking for help.

A witness told TC Palm the woman 'handled it like a champ' and that she was 'super calm' after the attack.

Marcus needed stitches and antibiotics for her injuries, a hospital spokesperson told TC Palm.