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Man Dies After Shark Attack Off Cape Cod, First Fatality in Massachusetts Since 1936
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Wellfleet, Mass. (AP) -- A man was bitten by a shark Saturday in the water off a Cape Cod beach and died later at a hospital, becoming the state's first shark attack fatality in more than 80 years.
The man, identified by Cape and Islands Assistant District Attorney Tara Miltimore as 26-year-old Arthur Medici of Revere, was attacked around noon off Newcomb Hollow Beach, police said.