Brazilian teen loses leg in shark attack a day after 11-year-old boy suffered same 6 miles away
A 19-year-old woman and an 11-year-old boy in Brazil each lost a leg to recent shark attacks that happened within a day and just over 6 miles of each other. The attacks occurred at Boa Viagem Beach in Recife and near Piedade Beach in Jaboatao dos Guararapes, with the teen being attacked by a 10-foot-long tiger shark and the boy by a bull shark. The two attacks were the third and fourth in the state of Pernambuco in 2026, including an incident that caused a fatality.
- ▪The 19-year-old woman, Marcela Vitoria de Lima Santos, was attacked by a 10-foot-long tiger shark at Boa Viagem Beach in Recife.
- ▪The 11-year-old boy, Joao Lucas Castor Nemezio Sales, was struck by a bull shark near Piedade Beach in Jaboatao dos Guararapes.
- ▪Pernambuco officials will resume monitoring the shark population along the state’s coast after a more than 10-year hiatus.
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A 19-year-old woman and an 11-year-old boy in Brazil each lost a leg to recent shark attacks that happened within a day and just over 6 miles of each other. The teen, identified as Marcela Vitoria de Lima Santos by the New York Post, was attacked Monday at Boa Viagem Beach in Recife. The attacker was a 10-foot-long tiger shark, the Pernambuco State Secretariat for the Environment and Sustainability said on Facebook. “I went into the water,” the teen’s cousin told a Brazilian TV station, according to the Post, “because she was drifting a little farther away, losing strength. I grabbed her by the arm and brought her back, pulling her, swimming toward the shore, and people came and helped me.
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