Authorities investigate whether a 13-year-old boy and a 12-year-old girl who both suffered large fish bites in the waters off Fire Island were victims of shark attacks .
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Shortly before noon today, officials said, the girl He was bitten by wading in the water on a beach known as Sailors Haven on Fire Island, a barrier beach at off the south shore of Long Island.
The girl's mother, Barbara Pollina, told ABC News that her daughter Lola "stays in there – a little overwhelmed at the moment."
Shortly after this attack, the boy was bitten while the boogie was boarding the waters off another beach in Fire Island, known as the Atlantic, according to officials. The two beaches are separated by several kilometers.
Emergency medical officers removed a suspicious shark tooth from the leg of an unidentified boy, who suffered a sting injury, according to officials of the Islip Town in Islip. Long Island. The tooth is being analyzed to determine the source of the attack.
"These two young children, thank God, are doing well," said Islip Town supervisor Angie Carpenter at a press conference Wednesday afternoon.
Carpenter said the boy had been bitten after a wave had it stunned on his boogie board. Rescuer Bella Cohen took the boy to a tent and dressed his wound. It was then that puncture injuries were discovered, Carpenter said.
The boy was transported by police boat to a local hospital, she said.
Dueling's responses from various officials at noon left some confusion as to what had attacked the two young men.
Officials from the city of Islip first confirmed that the boy's bite was indeed a shark attack, but later issued a statement saying that the 13-year-old was being bitten by "what could have been a shark".
"It has not been fully confirmed" that the boy was bitten by a shark, Carpenter said, but rescuers and emergency medical personnel who treated the victim assumed that it was "bad. was a shark bite.