6-year-old boy was attacked by a shark

Written by:
Hans Kruit, 4 November 2013

A 6-year-old boy was attacked by a shark while vacationing with his family in Miami — but child miraculously survived after a pair of strangers fought off the killer fish, according to a report.

The little boy, Logan Hamby — of Dadeville, Alabama — was wading in the knee-high waters just a few feet away from his parents, Kenneth and Donna Hamby, when they heard their son scream, the family told the Alex City Outlook.

“I immediately started getting up,” the father told the paper. “I thought it was a jellyfish.”
But as he approached his son, he saw a shark fin suddenly surface near his frantic son.

The father then spotted the mouth of the 4-foot-6 shark clamped around Logan’s leg and the creature was feverishly trying to drag the child under the water.
“When he went under that second time, the shark was pulling him out,” Kenneth Hamby said. “Three seconds later, I don’t know if I could have saved him.”

Kenneth latched onto his son as the boy’s mother tried to pry open the shark’s mouth.
But she was pushed aside by a pair of good Samaritans, Chris Wilson and Antonio Ruiz, after they jumped into the water and started to pummel the determined fish — punching its head before it finally let go.

Logan was taken to a hospital, where doctors stitched up five deep puncture wounds from the nasty bite.

source: Daily News