Florida officials: Teenage girl seriously injured in shark attack in Florida

AP – A teenage girl was seriously injured when a shark attacked her off Florida’s Gulf Coast, authorities mentioned.

The attack occurred Thursday afternoon off Keaton Beach, based on a Taylor County Sheriff’s Office news launch.

The 17-year-old girl had been on the lookout for scallops in the water along with her household when a 9-foot (3-meter) shark wrapped its jaws across the girl’s thigh, based on an announcement from her household.

The girl poked the shark in the eyes and punched it earlier than her brother, who’s a firefighter, managed to combat the shark off and pull the girl onto a stranger’s boat. 

The brother put a tourniquet on the girl’s leg to gradual blood loss.

After she was dropped at shore, the girl was airlifted about 60 miles (95 kilometers) to a hospital in Tallahassee, the state capital, officers mentioned. 

Doctors informed the household that the girl’s leg suffered intensive injury.

Officials did not instantly know what sort of shark bit the girl.