A shark attack in Florida involving an 11-year-old girl happened at WinterHaven Park in Ponce Inlet on Sunday. The young girl was rushed to the hospital with very painful shark attack bite marks, and shocked doctors later on found a shark tooth embedded in her leg wounds, WKMG reported on Aug. 28.
The 11-year-old girl identified as Riley Breihan was simply playing in knee-deep water when the shark attack happened. The girl felt something plunged its sharp teeth into her leg skin, NewsMax reported.
"At first I wasn't thinking about pain, I was thinking I got bit by a shark and I have to go to the emergency room," Riley Breihan told Florida's WKMG Local 6. "Then I felt the sting and it hurt real bad."
A couple of people who saw the shark attack incident rushed to the water, wrapped Riley in a towel, and took her to the nearest hospital.
"They wrapped me up in their towel, they carried me and put me in the back of their jeep," the sixth grader shark attack victim said.
The Examiner reported that the doctors at the hospital found out that Riley had been bitten twice by the shark: in her lower leg and in her heel, adding that the doctors saw a baby shark tooth still embedded along the bite marks on Riley's legs.
"They had to numb me and they had to prick it out," the 11-year-old girl said in an interview.
A Christian Post report stated that Breihan will be keeping the baby shark's tooth as a memento of her survival against the shark attack, and that she also confirmed that she will not be going back near the sea after the incident.
"I don't think I would go back in the water," Riley said. "I'm going to wait."
According to the Examiner, this shark attack incident is the second documented shark attack in Volusia County this 2013, adding that eight shark attacks were recorded in 2012, and six more were documented in 2011.
Meanwhile, another shark attack incident, which happened earlier this month, killed a 20-year-old German woman.
The woman was allegedly snorkeling on a Maui beach when an aggressive bit her arm off, causing her to die hours later.
Earlier reports showed that another person died from a shark attack in Hawaii in 2004.
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