A 10-year-old Gisborne girl is the second victim of a stingray attack on the East Coast in recent days.
The girl was taken to hospital with a lacerated knee after being hit by a stingray's barb at Makorori, 12km east of Gisborne, yesterday morning and was discharged after treatment.
On Sunday a Hawkes Bay man was left with a 10cm-deep cut in his groin after an encounter with a metre-long stingray at Tangoio Beach, Hastings.
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