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Swimming banned on Izu beach after shark captured

The city of Ito, Shizuoka Prefecture, on the Izu Peninsula banned visitors from swimming on a local beach Sunday after a 3.5-meter hammerhead shark was captured, due to fears there are more sharks in the area.

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