The incident took place less than a week after another child lost her hand during a shark attack off the coast of Florida ...

A 9-year-old girl whose right hand was nearly bitten off her arm by a shark near Boca Grande may fully recover thanks to fast ...

A 9-year-old girl in Florida is recovering from surgery after a shark nearly bit her hand off while she was snorkeling off a ...

Hilton Head Island shark attack leaves beachgoer with serious leg injuries, following incident where 9-year-old Florida ...

A 9-year-old girl, Leah Lendel, suffered a severe shark bite while snorkeling at a Boca Grande beach, nearly severing her ...

A young girl is speaking out after surviving a shark attack in Florida. Leah Lendel was airlifted to a hospital in Tampa last ...

Something hard bit me, and then it tried to tug me away,' Leah Lendel said A 9-year-old girl has left the hospital eight days ...

An overwhelmed 9-year-old shark attack survivor said the attack happened so quickly that she hardly realized she had been ...

SHE'S A FIGHTER  9-year-old Leah Lendel shared exactly what happened when a shark bit her last week, nearly taking her hand.

It's hard to imagine from her smiling face the unimaginable experience 9-year-old Leah Lendel has gone through.

"I was holding her hand in my hand and I didn’t think there was any chance at all of saving it,” her father said.