How New York lifeguards saved a woman after an unusual shark attack

Lifeguards saved a 65-year-old woman from a shark attack at Queens' Rockaway Beach.

The lifesavers heard the woman cry for help on Monday evening. She was bitten on her left leg just 10 feet away from the shore. Lifeguards pulled her out and used a rope as a tourniquet to stop her bleeding.

• "She lost a lot of blood," chief lifeguard Jose Diaz said. "Everybody's afraid to go into the water now. I don't blame them." Lifeguards saved the woman using the rope from a buoy as a tourniquet, the New York Post reported. The 65-year-old swimmer reportedly lost about 20 pounds of flesh as a result of the shark attack.

The woman was hospitalized and is in stable condition. The last reported Rockaway Beach shark attack was in 1953.