Shark BITES girl, 7, swimming in North Carolina as beachgoers ordered out of the sea days after another attack in CA

A GIRL, 7, was bitten by a shark while swimming in North Carolina, causing officials to clear the beach just a day after another shark attack in California.

The girl was nipped by the shark on Sunday afternoon in Ocean Isle Beach and was taken to a hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.

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Witnesses say that the girl was bitten on the calf, causing beach patrol to order everyone else out of the water.

Ocean Isle Beach Mayor Debbie Smith told the New York Post that the girl was given a few stitches and then released from the hospital.

“I heard she was quite brave,” Smith said of the girl.

It’s unclear at this time what kind of shark the girl was bitten by, but the mayor estimated it must have been quite small due to the size of the bite.

Smith said that shark bites are rare in the area, estimating that the last time a person was bitten was likely three or four years ago.

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“You should always be cautious when you’re in the water at the beach and just use good common sense, and to be alert,” she told the Post.

“But this is not a common occurrence.”

The attack came just a day after a surfer was left seriously injured after he was bitten by an 8ft great white shark in the water off San Francisco on Saturday.

The surfer, 35, was in the water off Grey Whale Cove State Beach when the massive shark took a bite out of his right leg.

The man was miraculously able to swim to shore before collapsing on the beach, according to a witness.

First responders applied a tourniquet to his leg and used “advanced life support measures” before transporting him to a trauma unit at Zuckerberg San Francisco general hospital.

The man was released on Sunday.

The attack came after a new study from Montana State University found that great white numbers were up in northern California’s “red triangle.”

The red triangle runs from Monterey Bay to Bodega Bay and the Farallon Islands.