A swimmer has been injured in a shark attack at a New York state beach. The man suffered minor lacerations to his feet after the apparent bite at Jones Beach State Park Field 6 in Nassau County, on Friday, during the busy July 4 weekend celebrations. The incident occurred after multiple reports of shark sightings at beaches in New York City and Long Island. The swimmer was taken to a local hospital with non-life-threatening injuries and a “deep, shark-tooth-like shape” on the bottom of his foot, reported WABC. One witness said he saw the man after the apparent shark attack, and that he didn’t seem aware of what happened to him. “I just see him getting out of the water and going up to the post and to the lifeguard, it didn’t really seem like anything happened and he was holding his foot and they came and got him, but yeah, then they were like ‘everyone get out’ and cleared everything,” said Tyler Grossman. Authorities temporarily closed the beach, although people were allowed back in the water to their waist around an hour later when no other sharks were spotted.
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