10-year-old attacked by shark while snorkeling off Florida coast shares harrowing experience

BOCA GRANDE, FLA. (WSVN) — A 10-year-old girl describes the harrowing moments that changed her life while she was snorkeling with her family.

Leah Lendel was snorkeling in the shallow waters off the coast of Boca Grande with her family in June when a shark took a bite out of her wrist.

“I think I saw its tail and then it just let go, and then I swim out, and then I see my hand bleeding and I knew it was a shark,” she said. “I was thinking, ‘What am I gonna do now? Am I ever gonna see my hand again?’”…

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