A 9 year old boy, who was on vacation with family in Miami Beach (USA), was admitted to a hospital after being bitten by a shark on a local beach, local media reported on Monday.
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The minor, who resides in Minnesota and traveled with his family to South Florida, spent most of Sunday in a hospital where he had to be operated on due to the bite of a four-foot shark. (1.2 meters) long, according to his mother, Kristine Weiskopf.
Speaking to local Miami channel WPLG, the mother reported that she was with her son on a beach in South Beach, when she noticed that after the child came out from under the water he was missing a piece of skin in a from his shoulders.
“I looked down and there was a four-footed gray shark swimming away, so I picked it up and took it to the beach,” the mother said.
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After being cared for by firefighters and emergency personnel, the boy was taken to Jackson Hospital in Miami, where he underwent emergency surgery to close the deep wounds to his injured shoulder.
The father, Ren Weiskopf, has noted that they are “in shock” but grateful that the boy survived the attack and hopes to recover, while at the same time expressing his surprise that the beach remains open.
“The beach is still open, and the kids are still down there playing, and they’re in the same place where my son just got attacked. I don’t know if it’s just for spring break or whatever, but the beach should to be closed, ”the father noted.
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Florida beaches are often the scene of shark attacks, one of the last recorded last December when a swimmer nearly died bleeding while walking for help and after being bitten on an arm and hand by a shark on a Siesta Key beach , on the west coast of Florida.
The total number of cases of shark attacks on humans reported in 2020 was 120 (39 provoked included), according to the annual report of the International Archive of Shark Attacks (ISAF) of the University of Florida (USA), in Gainesville, and which reflects that for the third year the number of unprovoked attacks has dropped.
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Miami Beach, where waves of young people have gathered on spring break, is under a night curfew imposed this weekend to prevent rallies without respecting the preventive rules of covid-19 that have led to clashes with the police and arrests.
EFE