An 8-year-old girl screamed in terror as a hulking shark ripped a large chunk of flesh from her body in a bloody attack at a Texas beach over the weekend.
Little Harper Ochoa was playing in the shallow waters in Galveston during a family vacation Saturday afternoon when she suddenly felt something grab the back of her leg, her horrified mother told KWTX.
The young girl cried out for help and pushed the bloodthirsty predator away as her panicked family pulled her from the water — only to discover the gaping wound below her calf.
“It was just so much blood it was hard to tell what was going on,” Harper’s mother, Christa, told the outlet, adding she initially thought her maimed daughter was attacked by a stingray.
“Then they were able to kind of get it to stop bleeding, the doctor was able to confirm that it looked like something from a shark.”
Harper received 13 staples to close the gruesome wound, her mother said, but returned to the hospital Monday after developing an infection.
The brave youngster will remain in the hospital for the next few days while receiving antibiotics, the outlet reported.
Her mother added that Harper is doing well — and can’t wait to return to the beach once she’s healed.
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