Family: Doctors have reattached hand of girl attacked by shark

BOCA GRANDE — The family of a 9-year-old girl attacked by a shark said doctors were able to reattach the hand that was nearly severed from her arm off a Boca Grande beach.

Leah Lendel was swimming with family members in the Gulf of Mexico off a public beach when she was bitten by a shark Wednesday.

She was airlifted to Tampa General Hospital, where doctors performed emergency surgery to reattach her hand…

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