MIAMI — A 13-year-old girl said she has more than a dozen stitches after fighting off a shark at a Florida beach.
Ella Reed was sitting in shallow water with a friend near a jetty in the Fort Pierce area Thursday when the shark approached, the teen told Miami ABC affiliate WPLG-TV.
Reed said she punched the shark -- which she believed to be a bull shark about 5 to 6 feet long -- but it came back. Reed said she called her family after the attack. Her mother said she was stunned by the sight of her daughter. Reed told the station that the shark bit her in the stomach, arm, finger and the top of her knee and that she received 19 stitches total at the hospital.
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