Two Attacks In One Day At Popular Hawaii Beaches (UPDATED)

UPDATE:

The surfer was harmed Saturday evening, hours after a shark pounded a male off Oahu’s Lanikai Beach. Both group were hospitalized Saturday in critical condition. Updates on their conditions weren’t immediately accessible Monday.

Officials with a state Department of Land and Natural Resources contend initial observations prove that a surfer’s bites came from an eel, not a shark, though they’re still operative to endorse that.

In a progressing attack, witnesses contend a tiger shark bit a 44-year-old male off Lanikai Beach around noon Saturday.

The occurrence is a sixth reliable shark conflict in Hawaii this year, and a second in as many weeks on Oahu.

Original story below: 

HONOLULU (AP) – Two group were severely harmed Saturday in apart shark attacks off a Hawaiian island of Oahu, authorities said.

Shortly before noon, a 44-year-old male was bleeding Saturday after what seemed to be a shark conflict in a waters off Lanikai beach in Oahu, a Honolulu Star-Advertiser reported.

The plant and another man, whose age is unknown, were swimming to seaside from a Mokulua Islands when a shark attacked, a journal reported. The conflict happened about 50 to 100 yards from shore, a Honolulu Fire Department said.

The plant was harmed in his reduce legs, though a other male did not means any injuries, a Star-Advertiser reported.

Two circuitously kayakers paddled a group behind to shore, where Hawaii Fire Department staff and paramedics treated a victim. He was taken to a sanatorium in critical condition.

Authorities told swimmers and privileged Kailua, Lanikai, and Mokulua beaches.

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