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Swimmer At Cape Cod National Seashore Dies From Apparent Shark Attack

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Man dies from apparent shark attack at Newcomb Hollow Beach/NPS map

A Massachusetts man died from an apparent shark attack at Cape Cod National Seashore on Saturday/NPS map

A Massachusetts man swimming at Cape Cod National Seashore on Saturday died from what was believed to have been a shark attack, authorities said.

"The male victim in his mid-20s was pulled from the water, provided emergency first aid to include CPR," the Wellfleet Police Department said in a post on its Facebook page. "The male victim was transported to Cape Cod Hospital by the Wellfleet Fire Department, where he passed from the injuries. The name and (information) of the victim is being held till proper notification."

The man was swimming about 300 yards south of Newcomb Hollow Beach, the national seashore said on its Facebook page.

The Cape Cod Times interviewed a witness shortly after the man was raced to the hospital.

The police department was working with the National Park Service and the Massachusetts State Police on the investigation. The attack was the second at Cape Cod this summer, and the first fatal attack since 1936, according to local media reports.

Earlier this summer a New York man was bitten by a shark while he was standing about 90 feet offshore of Longnook Beach, a Truro town beach surrounded by the national seashore. The man was hospitalized in serious condition at a Boston hospital with wounds to the left side of his left hip and thigh. The man, vacationing with his family, had gotten into the water and swam to the north, and then back to the south, according to seashore staff.

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