Fatal shark attack south of Canary Islands
A 30-year-old German tourist has died in hospital in Las Palmas in the Canary Islands, after a shark attack while swimming. Despite the arrival of a rescue helicopter, doctors were unable to do anything.
A trip out at sea turned into a tragedy. A young German tourist sailing aboard a British catamaran along the African coast had decided to swim in the Atlantic, south of the Canary Islands. While swimming, a shark attacked her. It bit her and tore off one of her legs. A distress call was sent from the boat. In shock, she finally suffered a heart attack on the deck of the boat before a Spanish helicopter arrived. Doctors were unable to save her during her transfer to the hospital in Las Palmas in Gran Canaria where she was pronounced dead.
(MH with Olivier Duquesne – Source: 7sur7.be – Picture: © Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license - Hermanus Backpackers – Wikipedia)