Shark attack, 1938-05-15 (Unprovoked)
Location: Ashar Canal, where people wash clothes & kitchen pans, Basrah City, IRAQ
Time: Afternoon
Activity: Swimming, naked
Victim: male (M, age 9 or 10)
Injury: Arm severed, but survived. Note: Some weeks later he was swimming at the same spot when a shark severed his right foot.
Fatal: N
Species: Bull shark
Source: B.W. Coad & L.A.J. Al-Hassan