Mississippi doctor saves life of Florida teenager attacked by shark

JACKSON, Miss. (WLBT) – A Mississippi doctor helped save the life of a teenager who was attacked by a shark on a Florida beach over the weekend.

Three people – two teenagers and a 45-year-old woman – were injured in two separate shark attacks near 30A on Saturday.

The attacks all occurred within 90 minutes of each other.

According to authorities, the teenagers were just inside the first sandbar in water about waist-deep when the attack occurred.

Dr. Mohammad Ali, an interventional radiologist at Baptist Medical Center in Jackson, and another doctor were boogie boarding with their family when they “noticed a commotion and blood in the water not far from them.”

This is according to a post from the Mississippi Baptist Medical Center on Monday.

“After rescuing their own family from the water, both doctors rushed to help,” the post said.

Dr. Ali applied a tourniquet to the teenager’s thigh and hand while the other doctor and emergency personnel also assisted.

The teenager was subsequently taken to a local hospital and is expected to recover.

The two girls, Lulu Gribbin and McCray Faust, came from Alabama.

Authorities said one of the girls suffered “severe injuries to an upper and lower extremity.”

The second girl suffered “flesh wounds on her right lower extremity and right foot.”

The 45-year-old woman who was attacked had to have her arm amputated.

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