An 8-year-old girl screamed in terror as a hulking shark ripped a large chunk of flesh from her body in a bloody attack at a Texas beach over the weekend.

Little Harper Ochoa was playing in the shallow waters in Galveston during a family vacation Saturday afternoon when she suddenly felt something grab the back of her leg, her horrified mother told KWTX.

The young girl cried out for help and pushed the bloodthirsty predator away as her panicked family pulled her from the water — only to discover the gaping wound below her calf.

Harper Ochoa, 8, was playing in the shallow waters when she felt something grab the back of her leg. Courtesy of the Ochoa Family

“It was just so much blood it was hard to tell what was going on,” Harper’s mother, Christa, told the outlet, adding she initially

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