Luis Alvarez was one of the three men who helped a 9-year-old girl during a shark attack earlier this month in Florida but, ...

Leah Lendel was snorkeling near Boca Grande on June 11 when "something hard bit me and then tried to tug me away," she said at a news conference Thursday alongside her parents and the doctors who ...

Authorities said the child, identified by family as Leah Lendel, was snorkeling in the water with her family off Boca Grande, on Wednesday, June 11, when the attack occurred.

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

Leah underwent a lengthy surgery on Wednesday, according to the statement from her family. By the next morning, doctors restored movement in two of Lendel’s fingers, though the rest of her hand ...

Leah Lendel, 9, recounted moment she was bitten in a shark attack while snorkeling off the Gulf Coast last week near Boca Grande, Florida. BOCA GRANDE, Fla.

Leah Lendel, 9, was injured in a Boca Grande, Florida shark attack on Wednesday. The animal nearly bit her entire hand off, her family said. BOCA GRANDE, Fla.