One dead, one critical after shark attack

RALEIGH, N.C. -- A shark attacked a couple wading in the surf off North Carolina's Outer Banks on Monday, killing the man and leaving his wife in critical condition.

The death came just two days after the first fatal shark attack this year in the United States. A 10-year-old boy was killed Saturday at Virginia Beach, Va.

Dare County Emergency Management officials confirmed the man and woman were attacked around 6 p.m.

"It was beautiful day and there were several people in the water with them," said dispatcher N.H. Sanderson. "The park service is interviewing these people now."

Dr. Seaborn Blair at Avon Medical Center said the man was dead and the woman was in critical condition. The woman had been flown to the Sentara Norfolk General Hospital in Virginia with substantial wounds to her lower torso. Blair said he believed the couple were from northern Virginia.