Non-fatal Bull Shark Attack
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📊 Attack Details
📅 Date & Time
1938
⏰ Afternoon
📍 Location
Ashar Canal, where people wash clothes & kitchen pans, Basrah City, IRAQ
🌍 IRAQ
🏊 Activity
Swimming
⚕️ Outcome
Severe
🟡 Non-fatal
👤 Victim Details
Age: 9 or 10
Gender: M
🏷️ Attack Type
Unprovoked
🩹 Injury Details
Arm severed, but survived. Note: Some weeks later he was swimming at the same spot when a shark severed his right foot.
🦈 Species Information
Bull Shark
This species has been involved in 223 documented attacks in our database.