9-year-old girl bitten by shark in knee-deep water at Florida beach

A 9-year-old girl was bitten in the leg by a shark in knee-deep water while on vacation with her family in Florida, a report said.

The girl, Maggie Crum, was in the water off the coast of New Smyrna Beach on Friday morning when she felt a sharp pain in her leg, the Today Show reported.

“It felt like a grab at first and then it just ripped into the skin, and that’s when it hurt and felt like a bite,” she told the show.

The fourth grader received 12 stitches in her leg after the bite, but has not hesitation on going back into the ocean, she said.

“What are the odds that you’re going to be bit twice?” she said.

Crum was the 10th person this year and fifth person in the past month to be bitten near New Smyrna Beach, according to the morning show.

Because of the string of incidents, the area has the reputation as the “shark capitol of the world.”

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