A young girl in China was left with her hand bloody and mangled after a visit to an aquarium turned awry. Wang Xiaoli, 6, had been viewing the sharks in an aquarium in a shopping mall in Guiyang City, Guizhou, on Tuesday afternoon (July 24) when her right hand was bitten, Chinese news site Guizhou People's Net reported on Thursday. Blood started splattering onto the floor and the child was immediately taken to the Guizhou Provincial Orthopaedic Hospital. According to the girl's mother, Xiaoli had been accompanied by her grandmother, aunt and other family members to the mall. Dr Hong Xiao told local newspaper Guiyang Evening News that Xiaoli's right hand had nine bites from the shark, with the largest wound measuring 5cm. The index and little fingers were fractured, with extensive damage to nerves and tendons in the whole hand. [[nid:421072]] In a video posted by Chinese digital news platform Pear Video, Xiaoli's mother, known only as Ms Wang, can be heard denying any wrongdoing on her daughter's part. "My child was only leaning on the glass, her hand was pressed to the glass. Her hand did not enter the water," she said. A sales manager from the shopping mall, however, said that Xiaoli's hand had touched the water's surface. Large signs at the shopping mall warn visitors against reaching into the open-top shark aquarium. Security footage posted by news sites including Chinese news site CCTV show bystanders rapidly backing away at the time of the attack, while the girl is shown struggling frantically and crouched over on the floor. The point of the attack is not clear or has been blurred out making it difficult to see what exactly happened. The security footage of the shark attack has since gone viral, including clips posted by CCTV as well as Taiwanese television network Chung T'ien Television. This article was first published in The Straits Times. Permission required for reproduction.<doc-sep>A shark bit a young girl, leaving deep gashes and multiple fractures to her hand after appearing to jump up from an open-top aquarium in southwest China, according to a report in the South China Morning Post. The incident took place at a shopping mall in the city of Guiyang, Guizhou province, on Tuesday but media reports of the biting only emerged later in the week. The name of the mall was not given but the victim was identified as 6-year-old, Xiao Li, who the Post reported went close to the tank so she could look at the sharks during a shopping trip with with her grandmother and aunt. The report said that the girl suffered fractures in nine places in her right hand, and other wounds 2 inches deep. Her mother said that the girl's arm had not been in the water when the animal attacked. "She did lean against the aquarium glass. But she didn't reach into the water," the girl's mother said in a video interview, posted by Chinese online news source Pear Video. "The shark just jumped out of the water and attacked her." A representative of the mall has disputed her account, and said that surveillance cameras prove the child was at fault for the incident. "In our CCTV footage, the child is seen reaching into the water, which is why this has happened," a sales manager for the mall told Pear Video in a segment that broadcast the footage (Warning: the clip contains images that could be disturbing to some viewers ). "If you don't put your hand in the water, a shark wouldn't normally jump out and attack," the manager said. "We have warning signs in place around the aquarium and we broadcast messages too—there are even two supervisors around to remind people to be careful," the sales manager said. Related: Wheelchair user confronts bear that snuck into her house and survives to tell the tale Surveillance footage of the incident shared online does not appear to conclusively settle the matter. The girl's arm is obscured by in-store plants and the crowd around the installation. The moment of the bite is mostly noticeable because of the commotion it causes as the girl pulls back in pain. The mall has pledged to help the girl in recovering from her injuries and said it will step up the security measures at the aquarium installation, news site The Shanghaiist reported.<doc-sep>A video of the scary moment, captured on a CCTV camera, has been shared online. A family's day out turned into the stuff of nightmares after their six-year-old was bitten by a shark. The girl, left severely injured, was standing next to an open-top aquarium when the accident happened. According to Shanghaiist, the incident took place on July 24 at a mall in Guiyang, China's Guizhou province. A video of the scary moment, captured on a CCTV camera, has been shared online. It shows the girl, identified only as Xiao Li, looking inside the tank when the shark suddenly attacks her. Watch the video here. (Disclaimer: The visuals can be disturbing. Viewer discretion advised) The girl was rescued from the shark and rushed to a hospital for treatment. She suffered fractures in several places on her right hand. She also had gashes as long as 5 cm (2 inches) long, reports South China Morning Post. While the girl's grandmother, who was with her, claims the shark leaped out of the tank and attacked Xiao Li, the mall claims the child put her hand into the water, reports DailyMail. The video shows signs placed around the aquarium, which say "Do not reach into the water", "Warm reminder to our dear customers: our aquarium has sharks, groupers, sea turtles and other types of aggressive of fish", and "Parents, please take good care of your children", reports South China Morning Post. The staff at the aquarium also reportedly warn people to be careful. The mall, however, has agreed to pay for the girl's medical expenses, DailyMail reports. Click for more trending news<doc-sep>
A young girl was left with deep gashes and multiple fractures to her hand after she was bitten by a shark in an open-top aquarium at a shopping mall in southwest China. The six-year-old, identified only as Xiao Li, had been looking at sharks in the aquarium with her grandmother and aunt on Tuesday when one of them jumped up and snapped at her hand, according to news website Colourful Guizhou. The mall, in the city of Guiyang, Guizhou province, was not named in the report on Thursday. Her right hand had fractures in nine places and deep wounds, the report said. Photos online showed the girl’s bloodied hand with gashes up to 5cm (2 inches) long. The doctor who treated the girl told the news website that she may need surgery if her hand did not heal well. A spokesman for the Guizhou Provincial People’s Hospital told the South China Morning Post the doctor who had treated the girl was not available for comment on Friday. Her mother, surnamed Wang, told Pear Video in an interview that Xiao Li had not put her hand in the tank. “She did lean against the aquarium glass,” Lang says in the video. “But she didn’t reach into the water – the shark just jumped out of the water and attacked her.” But a sales manager at the mall claimed the little girl had put her hand into the tank. “In our CCTV footage, the child is seen reaching into the water, which is why this has happened,” he says in the video. “If you don’t put your hand in the water, a shark wouldn’t normally jump out and attack.” Xiao Li is seen in security footage leaning against the aquarium glass with her grandmother. People crowded around suddenly leap backwards as the shark attacks, but it is not clear from the footage whether she had put her hand in the tank. “We have warning signs in place around the aquarium and we broadcast messages too – there are even two supervisors around to remind people to be careful,” the sales manager says in the video. The warning signs shown in the video read, “Do not reach into the water”, “Warm reminder to our dear customers: our aquarium has sharks, groupers, sea turtles and other types of aggressive of fish”, and “Parents, please take good care of your children”. The sales manager said staff at the mall were constantly trying to keep visitors from getting too close to the aquarium, despite constant reminders. Management at the mall said it had been in contact with Xiao Li’s parents about the incident. For the latest news from the South China Morning Post download our mobile app. Copyright 2018.