Shark attacks her while swimming and tears off her leg, and a tourist on vacation in the Canary Islands dies

A The young German tourist died. After it was He was attacked by a shark. As he swam off Canary Islands, In Spain. The tragedy occurred last Monday afternoon, when the 30-year-old girl was bitten by a shark after diving from the boat she was in. ripped her legDespite help from friends and then from Spanish authorities, the woman died in the following hours from her injuries.

According to what the Spanish authorities have reconstructed, the woman He was on vacation and was sailing on a boat flying the British flag.A in the Atlantic Ocean, about 278 nautical miles southwest of Gran Canaria, when the shark attacked. Spanish emergency services received a distress signal from the boat shortly before 3pm on Monday, and after also trying to contact the Moroccan Coast Guard to intervene by sea, A plane and a helicopter were sent to the scene. For the air force.

According to local sources, the Moroccan authorities refused to intervene due to lack of appropriate means. The woman was then loaded onto a Spanish helicopter only in the afternoon, about two hours after the alarm was raised, and taken to a hospital in Las Palmas, the capital of Gran Canaria. The woman, whose identity has not been revealed, is However, she arrived in critical condition after also suffering a cardiac arrest. He died in the evening in the Spanish hospital.

According to what has been reconstructed so far, the British-flagged boat had set sail from the Canary Islands on September 14 and was sailing off the coast of the Spanish islands, about 500 kilometres away, when the shark attack occurred. According to Spanish media, shark attacks are extremely rare in the area and the Spanish emergency services contacted their Moroccan counterparts, who, however, said they did not have adequate rescue equipment to intervene.