Leah Lendel was released from the ICU Wednesday after a shark nearly bit off her hand on June 11 while she was swimming off Boca Grande.

A positive update to a terrifying story, as a 9yr girl who nearly lost her hand in a shark attack is out of the ICU.

Leah was snorkeling in the water off a Boca Grande beach with her family when the apparent shark attack happened. Boca Grande fire officials said Leah was flown to TGH, where she underwent a 6-hour ...

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

"You're being very brave. Very strong," a Lee County sheriff's deputy told a 9-year-old girl after a shark bit and partially ...

One of two 911 callers frantically alerted authorities of a shark in the Boca Grande water and said they needed help "ASAP." ...

Family members of the 9-year-old girl who nearly lost her hand in a shark attack in Florida say she can now move her fingers.

The family says 9-year-old Leah was snorkeling when the shark bit her. Good Samaritans came over when they heard screaming to ...

Two sharks have attacked beachgoers since C.W. Blosser became the Boca Grande Fire chief, the most recent just this week.

A girl was injured after an apparent shark bite in the water off Boca Grande on Wednesday. Her family confirmed her identity ...

News of a shark attack or bite is always unsettling. A young swimmer was was airlifted from Boca Grande in Lee County on June ...

A 9-year-old girl, identified as Leah Lendel, was injured in a suspected shark attack in Boca Grande. This is the second reported shark attack in Boca Grande under Fire Chief C.W. Blosser's 16 ...