A German tourist died after being bitten by a shark on Monday while leaving Spain Canary Islandssaid the coast guard.
A 30-year-old woman lost her leg in the attack and later died of a heart attack while being transported by a Spanish helicopter, a coastguard spokesman told AFP.
He was sailing on a British Catamaran in the Atlantic about 278 nautical kilometers southwest of the island of Gran Canaria when the shark struck. He was attacked while swimming near a catamaran, Reuters reported.
Emergency services received an alert at 1255 GMT calling for a medical evacuation and dispatched a military plane and helicopter after contacting the Moroccan coast guard.
The woman was airlifted overnight at around 1800 GMT and taken to a hospital in the Gran Canaria city of Las Palmas when she died, the spokesman said.
The boat tracking website shipfinder.com showed that the boat, Dalliance Chichester, left the port of Las Palmas on September 14.
Shark attacks are rare, with a total of 69 confirmed attacks worldwide and There were 14 reported deaths last yearaccording to the International Shark Attack File, managed by the Florida Museum of Natural History and the American Elasmobranch Society. The report noted that the population is “disproportionate”. he was killed by a shark bite in Australia last year compared to other countries, and Australia accounted for 22% of the world’s non-recurring shark attacks by 2023.
The fatal attack happened less than a month ago killed a 16-year-old high school student in Jamaica.
In July, a the surfer broke his leg after a great white shark attacked him in Australia. The month before that, go diving Tamayo Perry died after being fatally injured in a shark attack on the island of Oahu in Hawaii.
In January, a young fisherman diving for scallops was killed by a shark on the Pacific coast of Mexico.