Shark Attacks Pittsburgh Woman In Myrtle Beach

(AP) – A Pittsburgh grandmother needed hundreds of stitches after she was bitten on the arm by a shark in Myrtle Beach, one of two attacks that day. On Monday, Karen Sites and her 8-year-old grandson, Brian Sites, were wading in the ocean at South Carolina’s most famous beach when an unidentified shark grabbed Karen Sites’ arm. “I just felt something, I guess, bite me and there was a shark on my arm,” Sites told The Associated Press. According to WPDE, Brian Sites witnessed the attack just a few feet away. “I couldn’t even see the shark coming up, but all I saw was the shark jumped up, and it didn’t even bite all the way, like I saw the movement of the tail go to the side, and then she screamed a little bit, and as soon as she touched it, it fell into the water,” he told WPDE. Karen Sites was taken to a nearby hospital for surgery, where she received hundreds of stitches. While shark attacks are considered rare, a second shark attack was reported later that day, about a half-mile from where Karen Sites was bitten.