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Lauren Erickson Van Wart of Lowell killed in Bahamas shark attack
The Massachusetts woman who was attacked and killed by a shark in the Bahamas has been identified as Lauren Erickson Van Wart of Lowell.
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The Massachusetts woman who was attacked and killed by a shark in the Bahamas has been identified as Lauren Erickson Van Wart of Lowell.
A Boston woman was attacked by a shark while paddle boarding in the Bahamas. WBZ-TV's Tammy Mutasa reports.
A Boston woman was killed in a shark attack in the Bahamas
The woman and a male relative were paddle boarding at a resort about 3/4 mile away from the shore when she was bitten by the shark.
The woman remains hospitalized in what police described as serious condition.
The state of Maine is nearly tripling the number of acoustic shark detectors in coastal waters a year after the state's first fatal shark attack.
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It is only the second unprovoked shark attack in Maine's recorded history.
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