Tourist dies after losing her leg in shark attack off Canary Islands

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Tourist ***** after losing her leg in shark ******* off Canary Islands

A ******* tourist ***** after being bitten by a shark on Monday while sailing off Spain’s

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, the coastguard said.

The 30-year-old woman lost a leg in the ******* and ***** of a heart ******* later while being transported in a Spanish rescue helicopter, a coastguard spokesman told AFP.

She was sailing in a British catamaran in the Atlantic some 278 nautical miles southwest of the island of Gran Canaria when the shark struck. She was attacked while swimming beside the catamaran, Reuters reported.

Emergency services received an alert at 1255 GMT calling for a medical evacuation and sent a military plane and helicopter after also contacting the Moroccan coastguard.

The woman was taken on board the helicopter in the evening around 1800 GMT and was bound for hospital in the Gran Canaria town of Las Palmas when she *****, the spokesman said.

Boat-tracking website vesselfinder.comindicated that the boat, the Dalliance Chichester, had left the port of Las Palmas on September 14.

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are rare, with a total of 69 confirmed unprovoked attacks worldwide and 

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, according to the International Shark ******* File, which is administered by the Florida Museum of Natural History and the ********* Elasmobranch Society. The report noted that a “disproportionate” amount of people 

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 last year when compared with other countries, and Australia accounted for about 22% of the world’s unprovoked shark attacks in 2023.

The deadly ******* comes less than a month after a shark

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in Jamaica.

In July, a 

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 after a great white shark attacked him in Australia. The month before that, surfer 

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 after sustaining fatal injuries in a shark ******* off the island of Oahu in Hawaii.

In January, a young fisherman diving for scallops was 

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 off the Pacific coast of Mexico.

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