Two survive shark attacks at Myrtle Beach this week

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MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. (AP) — Two swimmers have survived shark attacks this week at South Carolina’s most popular beach. Police say both were bitten in Myrtle Beach on the same day and a half-mile apart. One woman from Pittsburgh needed hundreds of stitches after she was bitten in the forearm in waist-deep water on Monday.

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The other suffered a more glancing bite to the leg. Shark attacks on humans are rare. The International Shark Attack File says just 47 shark bites were reported at beaches in the U.S. last year. Four shark attacks were reported in South Carolina last year.

The group says, Florida led the nation with 28. Precautions swimmers can take include avoiding going in the ocean around dawn or dusk when sharks come closer to the shore to feed, leaving the water when schools of fish can be seen near the surf and staying away from places where people may be using bait to fish, experts said.

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