A teenage surfer has been hospitalised after being bitten on the left hand by a shark off the Florida coast.
The Volusia County Beach Patrol says the 14-year-old boy was with four other surfers in Atlantic waters off New Smyrna Beach when he was bitten on Sunday morning.
Captain Aaron Jenkins, a patrol spokesman, told the Orlando Sentinel that the boy suffered "significant lacerations" from what was described as a 1.2-or 1.5-metre blacktip shark.
He says the boy punched the shark before returning to shore, where he was given aid by a beach safety officer before being taken to a hospital.
He says the attack occurred about 90 metres offshore.
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