A shark attacked a 10-year-old girl on a Florida beach

A 10-year-old girl was bitten by a shark on a beach St. Johns County, on the northeast coast of Florida, and had to be transferred to a hospital in the area, where he was transferred 40 stitcheslocal media reported Thursday.

The event took place last weekend at Crescent Beach, when Peyton Shields he was in the water enjoying a day at the beach on his birthday with his family and was attacked by a shark who took the local chain WJXT.

It's still unknown the shark species who bit the youngest in the legs and one hand when he tried to drive away the shark.

The girl's parents were on the beach when they heard the screams of their daughter and they thought that it was about a jellyfish He had been bitten in the water, but they soon saw the blood and realized that it was something more serious.

"Blood was flowing from his hand and I started saying "what's going on?" and when she left the water, I saw a lot more blood coming out of the lower half of her legs. " said the father to Steve Shields.

Immediately, the parents of the girl squeezed the wounds with a towel and they called the 911 emergency line.

The minor was transferred to Flagler Hospital, where doctors closed their wounds with about forty stitches.

Although at the time of the shark attack, there were more children bathing, Shields was the only one to bite the shark.

The International Shark Attack File (ISAF), an entity of the University of Florida at Gainesville, was the subject of an investigation 130 incidents between humans and sharks in 2018 in the United States, of which 66 were clbadified as unprovoked, a figure lower than the 84 registered annual average over the period 2013-2017.

The state of Florida, with 16 unprovoked attacks, is the "number one" region of the United States in 2018, a position he has always maintained.

The decrease in the number of unprovoked attacks was particularly significant in Florida, where the annual average was 30 cases in the period 2013-2017.

That might have been due, although it was not included in the report because in the summer of 2018 there was a Persistent contamination by algae both in the Florida coast of the Gulf of Mexico (west) and the Atlantic (east), which has not invited to enter the sea.