A teenage girl had her leg bitten off by a tiger shark in a horrifying scene a day after an 11-year-old boy endured a similar attack at another beach just a few miles away.
Disturbing video of the incident shows Marcela Vitoria de Lima Santos, 19, being dragged to shore by a lifeguard and bystanders after she was bitten, eerily resembling footage captured at the nearby beach during the shark mauling a day earlier.
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Once on shore, an off-duty doctor rushed to her side and tied a tourniquet to stanch the bleeding on her badly bitten leg before she was rushed to Hospital da Restauracao, a fast-thinking move hospital director Petrus de Andrade Lima said saved her life.
“For patients who are experiencing such severe hemorrhages where
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