3 Injured in 2 Shark Attacks on Florida Beaches 4 Miles Away From Each Other

Teen being taken by paramedics
Brittain Morrison

Two doctors on vacation, Mohammad Ali and Ryan Forbess, who were on the beach during a shark attack involving two teens are speaking out.

Three people were injured, two severely, in two separate shark attacks while they were on beaches in Walton County, Florida, possibly by the same shark.

A teen girl was rushed to the hospital with severe injuries. Her family says she lost her left hand and right leg.

The girl's 17-year-old friend who was also in the water was also bitten but got away with minor “flesh wounds” to her foot.

Two doctors on vacation, Mohammad Ali and Ryan Forbess, were on the beach when the teenagers screamed out for help.

“I saw blood in the water as I got my kid, my son, up on the beach,” Forbess tells Inside Edition.

The doctors gave the girl who suffered severe injuries emergency treatment.

“She had lost a lot of blood and was in and out of consciousness,” Ali says.

Around an hour and a half earlier, four miles away at another beach in the Florida panhandle, a mother of three was also attacked.

Elisabeth Foley had to have part of her arm amputated and suffered severe injuries to her torso.

“It’s extremely unusual for two to happen in the same afternoon within four miles of one another,” Chief Ryan Crawford of the South Walton Fire District said during a press conference.

The latest attacks come shortly after a 19-year-old was bitten by a shark in Galveston.

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