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Louisiana girl dies in Florida shark attack

Associated Press — June 27, 2005

Monday, June 27, 2005

SANDESTIN, Fla. — A 14-year-old girl died Saturday after a shark attacked her while she and a companion were swimming in the Gulf of Mexico, authorities said. The teenagers were swimming on boogie boards about 100 yards offshore when they noticed a dark shadow in the water, authorities said. "One of the swimmers was bitten. It was the lower portions of her body," said Walton County Sheriff's spokeswoman Donna Shank. The other swimmer was not injured. Both girls swam to shore, and the vic ...

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