The 16-year-old whose arm had to be amputated after a shark attacked him has been released from a North Carolina hospital. Officials at New Hanover Regional Medical Center said Thursday that Hunter Treschl, of Colorado Springs, Colorado, was released on Thursday. They said they would release no further information about the teen at the request of his family. Treschl's left arm was amputated below his shoulder after a shark attacked him Sunday in the water off the North Carolina coast. Scroll down to video Treschl and his cousin were 'playing around in the waves' at a North Carolina beach when he felt something bump into his left calf.Hunter Treschl , 16, from Colorado Springs, lost his left arm below the shoulder in shark attack on Oak Island, North Carolina, on SundayTreschl was in waist-deep water when he felt the shark bump into himHe was released Thursday from New Hanover Regional Medical CenterKiersten Yow, 12, had her left arm ripped off by a shark below the elbow on the same beach an hour earlier
Also attacked that day was 12-year-old Kiersten Yow of Asheboro, _.