Galveston, Texas (KWTX) - An 8-year-old girl who used to live in the Waco area and still has family in Central Texas is now recovering from a shark injury, after being bitten by one at a beach in Galveston yesterday.

Harper Ochoa and her mom Christa were just enjoying a family vacation in Galveston, a trip they’d gone on many times before.

On Saturday they spent most of the day at the beach, until that afternoon when Harper says she felt something grab the back of her leg while she was playing in the shallow water.

Christa says Harper, not knowing what had grabbed her, pushed it off of her and began screaming to family members nearby.

When they got her out of the water they noticed a big chunk missing from the back of her leg, just below her calf.

“At first we thought, you know what i

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