Shark believed to have injured 4 people in waters off South Padre Island on Fourth of July

In 1 incident, constabulary received a telephone astir a 'severe' wound to a man's leg.

SOUTH PADRE ISLAND, Texas -- Four radical are believed to person been injured by the aforesaid shark portion successful waters disconnected the confederate seashore of Texas connected the Fourth of July, officials said.

Texas Game Warden Capt. Chris Dowdy told ABC Weslaco, Texas, affiliate KRGV that 4 abstracted incidents involving the shark, including 2 bites, were reported disconnected South Padre Island.

In 1 of the incidents, the South Padre Island Police Department said it received a telephone reporting a "severe" shark wound to the limb astatine astir 11 a.m. section clip Thursday adjacent the 4100 artifact of Gulf Boulevard.

First responders from the South Padre Island constabulary and occurrence departments provided attraction astatine the country earlier the antheral was transported to Valley Regional Medical Center successful Brownsville, constabulary said.

Footage from a beachgoer who witnessed the incidental showed a shark swimming adjacent the enactment successful the vicinity of that attack.

A 2nd idiosyncratic was bitten by the shark, portion 1 was grazed and different injured fending disconnected the shark, Dowdy told KRGV.

The 2nd wound unfortunate was besides taken to Valley Regional Medical Center successful Brownsville. One of the 2 wound victims was flown retired for "further treatment," Police said Thursday night.

Officials had antecedently said 4 abstracted shark bites were reported earlier aboriginal clarifying the quality of the incidents.

The shark has escaped to unfastened waters and determination is nary program to incorporate the shark astatine this time, Dowdy told the station.

The South Padre Island Beach patrol, on with the occurrence and constabulary departments, were patrolling the shoreline and utilizing drones, constabulary said pursuing the Thursday greeting attack.

"Shark encounters of this quality are not a communal occurrence successful Texas," officials said successful a statement. "When bites from sharks bash occur, they are usually a lawsuit of mistaken individuality by sharks looking for food."

Authorities person advised beachgoers that if they spot "large schools of bait adjacent the shore, this typically an indicator a predator is nearby, oregon if you spot a shark successful the water, calmly exit the h2o and hold for the predatory wildlife to pass."