A 9-year-old girl was attacked by a shark while snorkeling off the Florida Gulf Coast, with the animal nearly biting her entire hand off, her family said.

A 9-year-old girl, identified as Leah Lendel, required emergency surgery to her hand after an apparent shark attack off the Florida coast during a family vacation.

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The girl was swimming when she was bit by something. A girl swimming at a popular resort town in South Carolina was injured in what was an apparent shark attack on Monday. Cristy Torres, who was ...

A man said he was faced with "appalling scenes" after a visit to a beach. Tim Healey said he visits Red Rocks Nature Reserve in Hoylake most days - and today, Saturday, May 24, was no different.

Human remains have been found on a beach popular with tourists ... One individual described the scene as "very graphic". The same witness reported seeing police vehicles and a private ambulance ...

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in which a man speaking with a strong mainland Chinese accent is seen planting a Chinese flag on what he says is a Taiwanese beach. Scenes in the background appear to show a stretch of coastline ...

PENSACOLA BEACH, Fla. -- A fisherman used a drone to help save the life of a teen girl fighting a rip current in Florida. "I was shaking pretty badly. It was nerve-wracking, I about cried," Andrew ...

(WSVN) - A Florida shark fisherman is being hailed a hero after he saved a teenage girl that was caught in a rip current at Pensacola Beach ... to make it on scene. “If it wasn’t for that ...

PENSACOLA BEACH ... the scene. "If it wasn't for that second drop, she wouldn't have made it," Smith said. "The EMS, the cops, and the lifeguards said she wouldn't have made it." The girl was ...