Mississippi doctor helps save life of teen attacked by shark in Florida

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

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

The attacks all occurred within 90 minutes of each other.

The teens were just inside the first sandbar, in waist-deep water, when the attack took place, authorities said.

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

This according to an article from Mississippi Baptist Medical Center published Monday.

“After pulling their own family out of the water, the two doctors rushed to help,” the message read.

Dr. Ali applied a tourniquet to the teen's upper leg and hand while the other doctor and emergency personnel also helped her.

The teen was then transported to a local hospital and is expected to recover.

Both girls, Lulu Gribbin and McCray Faust, were from Alabama.

Authorities said one of the girls suffered “serious injuries to an upper limb and a lower limb.”

The second girl received “bodily injuries to the right lower limb, or right foot.”

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

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